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A 4-year-old boy in Denver, abruptly taken ill and hospitalized, lost his heartbeat for 14 hours before, on its own, it started beating again, leaving doctors without an explanation.
But his father, Dominique McDaniel, had the answer: "God got the last say."
A report from Denver's KDVR broadcast outlet confirmed the saga is not yet over, as the child, Carter McDaniel, will remain hospitalized for some time yet.
But Dr. Aline Maddux, an associate professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Colorado, confirmed, "His heart just restarted. That was really an incredible thing that occurred."
Maddux earlier had said, "His heart stopped beating. We tried to revive it, and there was fear that he might not survive this."
KDVR reported, "A miracle of modern medicine or a miracle from a higher power? No matter what you believe, the recovery story of Cartier McDaniel is nothing short of amazing."
The child woke up with a fever and that soon progressed to chills, frequent urination, extreme thirst and lethargy, the report said.
His breathing because unstable and his mother, Destiny Anderson, rushed him to the ER.
She said, "I had to carry him in because he just wasn't moving. His mouth was turning blue and his eyes were sinking in."
"They’re saying your son’s not breathing, one, two, three — that’s all I remember hearing," McDaniel said.
Nurses grabbed him, but he soon was in cardiac arrest.
The diagnosis was strep A, which led to sepsis, which started causing his organs to fail.
He was put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a type of life support machine.
He was there, without a heartbeat, into the next day.
Family members gathered and Anderson leaned on that support, and the faith over her partner, who said, "It’s time to go talk to God. It’s time to talk to the man upstairs."
KDRV reported how McDaniel never doubted his son's survival, based on his "unrelenting trust in the Lord."
They prayed.
And an hour later, it happened, something doctors never before had seen, the report said.
"Everybody else was jumping up and screaming and everything," Anderson told reporters. "I just still couldn’t process what was going on … like you gave me the worst news of my life to the best news of my life."
Anderson explained, "God got the last say. I know that God is real. I’m a firm believer in Jesus Christ."
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A professor at Columbia University has been denied access to portions of the campus where he works – because he's Jewish.
Equally alarming is the reasoning of the school: It says it couldn't be confident he would be safe if allowed to enter.
The report is from the Washington Examiner, which said the stunning developments are because of the widespread anti-Israel protests being orchestrated by leftists on campuses across the country.
They are part of the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians that left some 1,200 innocent people dead, often killed in horrific butchery.
Israel's response was to dispatch its military to wipe out that terror threat and the result has been the portrayal of Israel as the attacker, and the protests are in defense of Palestinian "victims."
The Columbia University situation developed when Shai Davidai, an Israel native and assistant business professor, was barred by the school from entry into the campus's "liberated zone."
"Davidai claimed his identification card had been deactivated as school officials said they could not ensure his safety. An estimated 200 pro-Palestinian protesters were on the campus at the time, with the students likely needing to have their IDs to get in," the report said.
The school sent its chief operating officer, Cas Holloway, to tell Davidai he needed to go to a different part of campus, the report said.
"I am a professor here; I have every right to be everywhere on campus; you cannot let people that support Hamas on campus, and me, a professor, not go on campus. Let me in now," Davidai responded.
He previously was interviewed on an Israeli news show to explain what the protesting students were doing was "terrorism."
Earlier, a Jewish student had filed a hate crime report charging he was hit in the head with rocks thrown by pro-Palestinian protesters.
Constitutional expert and popular legal issue commentator Jonathan Turley explained what was so alarming about the school's decision.
"What was equally concerning is that the university did so for his own protection out of concern that, as an outspoken Jewish faculty member, he could not walk around the campus safely. It was reminiscent of the recent controversy of a man in London threatened with arrest because being 'quite openly Jewish' would trigger pro-Palestinian protesters," he explained.
He said, "The most basic obligation of a university is to ensure the safety of its faculty and students from physical assaults. If there is a problem on campus, it is found in those students or faculty who would threaten a Jewish professor if he were to walk on campus.
"This is not part of the debate over what language is considered a threat or hateful rhetoric. This is barring a professor because his status alone makes his presence inflammatory or dangerous. I cannot imagine how the solution was barring the potential victim of religious-based bigotry and violence," he said.
He pointed out that "major donors like Robert Kraft" have begun pulling their financial support over the anti-Israel hate.
The school needs, he said, to supply "whatever security is needed to allow him and others to walk around campus without fear of assault."
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President Donald Trump has yet to be named the GOP nominee for president for the fall election. And then there's the campaigning, debates if Democrats allow the "diminished" Joe Biden to participate, and the election.
But several NATO leaders believe they know what will happen: they're making track of Trump.
"These leaders are anticipating that Trump's gonna win," Kurt Volker, a former ambassador to NATO, told the Washington Examiner.
"And so, they also want to reestablish relationships." He also said there's a lot of concern among European leaders about Biden's failure so far to orchestrate more American support for Ukraine, which is fighting a war against an invading Russia.
The most recent visitor, the report explained, was Polish President Andrzej Duda, who "joined the list of foreign leaders beating a path to Donald Trump’s door this week."
"It was a friendly meeting in a very nice atmosphere," Duda explained to media in his home country.
The report noted Trump also described the visitor as a "friend."
And he said, "We're behind Poland all the way."
That was reassuring, the report explained, to European leaders who watch "with alarm" the declining poll numbers for Biden.
The report noted Duda is "at least the third European leader to travel to the United States to visit Trump, following British Foreign Secretary David Cameron — himself a former prime minister — and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary."
Biden's State Department has been trying to downplay the visits, explaining that foreign governments often "engage with the nominees of major parties."
And "engage" is what a number have sought.
"We see that the functioning of the U.S. has been paralyzed towards Ukraine, and Trump has influence even if he’s not in power — even if he’s under criminal investigation — he’s influencing what is happening or not happening," the report explained was the conclusion of a "senior European official."
The dilemma facing European leaders is their hope that Biden will be able to get something done regarding Ukraine, but their impression that they will need to fall into line behind Trump in the event he is elected.
Ex-NATO strategist Stefanie Babst told the Examiner, "They will try not to upset the Biden administration too much, but their greater concern is that they haven’t even had a chance to speak to Trump to get a personal impression of what the guy is really up to. To me, [the visits are] a sign of despair."
Babst noted that what Biden has "decided" in dealing with Ukraine and Russia is "not working."
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A state official in Ohio has rejected Democrats' illegal plan to sneak Joe Biden's name onto the 2024 presidential ballot.
A lawyer for the leftist party had wanted the state to accept a "provisional" certification of Biden, and Kamala Harris, as candidates, but Attorney General Dave Yost's office found the move "simply is not provided for by law."
"Instead, the law mandates the Democratic Party to certify its president and vice-president candidates on or before August 7, 2024. No alternative process is permitted," the statement said.
The problem is that Democrats, focused for the last few years on trying to exclude President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, overlooked state requirements for certification. Their convention, to officially name Biden as the candidate, doesn't happen until the end of August.
After the deadlines in Ohio and Alabama will have passed by the time their decision is made.
The Ohio state decision said, "Thus, the secretary of state lacks authority to accept 'provisional certifications' from the Democratic Party under [the law]. The Democratic Party must certify its presidential candidates on or before August 7, 2024, to be placed on the 2024 general election ballot."
The state earlier had offered two solutions to the Democrats. One is that the state legislature could change the law, and the other is that the Democrats could reschedule their convention for earlier.
A report from Fox News described the Democrat plan as trying to "skirt" the law.
The report said documents show correspondence between Yost and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose as well as lawyer Donald McTigue, representing Democrats.
McTigue claimed that the state had the authority to take a "provisional certification" to accommodate the Democrats.
The AG shot down the idea.
"The Democratic Party’s notion of providing a ‘provisional certification’ by the statutory deadline simply is not provided for by law," Yost's office said. "Instead, the law mandates the Democratic Party to certify its president and vice-president candidates on or before August 7, 2024. No alternative process is permitted."
Biden's campaign continued to confirm he will be on the ballot in "all 50 states."
Officials in Alabama also have warned Biden of similar circumstances there.
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said the law requires the nominations by Aug. 15.
"It has recently come to my attention that the Democratic National Convention is currently scheduled to convene on August 19, 2024, which is after the State of Alabama’s statutory deadline for political parties to provide a certificate of nomination for President and Vice President on August 15, 2024," officials there told Democrats. "The certificate of nomination must be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the convention and by the chair of the state executive committee of the political party making the nomination."
The American Center for Law and Justice, which has fought on behalf of election integrity and ballot fairness, pointedly noted, "Remember when the far Left tried to disqualify President Donald Trump from state primary ballots? The ACLJ won at the U.S. Supreme Court to protect your right to vote for the candidate of your choice."
Democrats across America have spent months and likely uncounted dollars trying to get President Donald Trump banned from the 2024 presidential ballot.
They've pushed the "insurrectionist" talking point over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, ever since those events happened.
They've worked at the state level, in Colorado, to obtain a ruling from an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that his name shouldn't appear. Two other states followed Colorado's agenda, but that agenda was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democrats even have assembled a long list of questionable claims against Trump – in court – to try to make sure Americans are not allowed to check his name on the ballot in November.
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President Donald Trump at the start of his latest trial in New York on Monday, April 15, 2024:
"This is an assault on America. Nothing like this has ever happened before. There has never been anything like it. Every legal scholar says this case is nonsense and should never have been brought. There has never been anything like this. There is no case.
"People that don't necessarily like Donald Trump say this is an outrage this case was brought. It is political persecution, a persecution like never before. Nobody has ever seen anything like it and again it is a case that should have never been brought. It is an assault on America and why I'm very proud to be here.
"This is an assault on our country. It's a country that is failing. A country that's run by an incompetent man very much involved in this case. An attack on a political opponent. That's all it is. I'm very honored to be here, thank you very much."
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A writer in the leftist Salon publication is claiming that recent attacks on women in New York City are the fault of men.
Men who are fans of President Donald Trump.
Which would make them "Make America Great Again" supporters.
Which means it's all Trump's fault.
And the publication is getting scorched online for the theory.
A report at the Blaze explains it was in an article by Amanda Marcotte that she claims the recent attacks, sometimes blindside punches that have injured women in New York, "were animated by the same misogyny behind support for former President Donald Trump."
The Salon piece claimed: "These stories resonate, as well, because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim. Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there's an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner."
It cited six cases of women being victimized, although dozens of such cases have been documented.
Multiple suspects have been caught, and others are being sought.
But the article might not have generated the sympathetic comments it sought. At the Blaze one reader explained, "Rule number one of the democratic playbook; blame the republicans for the crimes you are currently committing."
And another said, "Black men randomly punching white women, in one of the most liberal cities in America = male MAGA-fueled rage."
And, "The crazy left doesn't want attacks on just ANY white people... they want these attacks to be directed toward Trump supporters. If they skew the narrative to make anyone have an excuse to be violent towards MAGA then they have done their job. Meanwhile, they are protecting their own. This is such a Gaslight."
Charles C.W. Cooke of the National Review noted the situation was "Beyond parody."
"Drug-crazed and violent criminals target people who can’t fight back, and that’s usually unarmed women. We can fix the problem by locking these men in prison or psych wards. It’s really that simple, and doesn’t require a ninth-grade feminist think piece in Salon," noted New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino."
Marcotte, online, explained she feels the criticism proves her right.
"Man, I knew this article was super true when I wrote it, but the hateful emails MAGA men are sending doubly prove it. Hit dogs, as they say, holler."
A column at Daily Fetched pointed out how the Salon writer was "roasted."
"The leftist website published bizarre and unfounded claims in an article authored by Amanda Marcotte that the same misogyny behind Trump supporters animated the brutal attacks."
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NBC News is being skewered, very politely of course, for its decision to report on the work of LifeWise Academy, but then leaving out critical facts.
Not unlike reporting the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings played football, but leaving out the score.
LifeWise is a nonprofit that provides Bible-based character education to public school students under release-time provisions and with their parent's permission.
Decades back, the U.S. Supreme Court authorized that religious instruction be allowed during the school day as long as the instruction is off-campus, is privately funded, and parents give their permission.
NBC has featured the organization in its reporting, but left out key information, according to LifeWise CEO Joel Penton.
He explained, "I have to say, I’m a little disappointed because we invited them in, lined up people for them to speak to and they left out some of the most critical information. They left out the results … there are real results."
He said, "When LifeWise is implemented in a school, attendance goes up. Schools are struggling with attendance post-COVID and with LifeWise, attendance goes up to the point that there’s a net increase in class time. ... Also, in-school suspensions go down and out-of-school suspensions go down, so there is improved behavior."
Further, he said, polling shows that 71% of voters think teaching character education can help teachers and schools, 76% are in favor of teaching morals to public school students, and 56% support using lessons with biblical values.
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The Disney Corporation is facing accusations of breaching its fiduciary duty to stockholders and federal civil rights violations because of its leftist agenda that demands "diversity, equity and inclusion," an agenda that already has seen its productions skewing into an ideology rejected by families across America.
In a letter this week to Robert Iger, CEO, and other company officials, the America First Legal organization charges the company "has implemented facially illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and policies."
The letter points out that Iger "and the board, among your other fiduciary obligations, a have a duty of oversight and the responsibility for putting in place a reasonable and effective system of compliance monitoring and reporting relating to these mandates."
But, the letter said, the "fact that Disney has adopted facially illegal DEI policies is prima facie evidence that the company's internal controls have failed."
The letter notifies Disney of "mismanagement, including but not limited to intentional violations of federal civil rights laws, breaches of fiduciary duty, and the wasting of company assets."
The letter charges the company with "sacrificing the company's reputation and goodwill to serve a highly idiosyncratic and controversial political agenda that is offensive to the vast majority of the company's core customers."
That comes from "something other than the best interests of the company's shareholders," the letter charges.
It specifically cites Disney's full-throated participation in the nation's "culture wars."
And that risks "harming shareholder value.'
Disney has become a major player in several leftist ideologies in recent years that conflict with the traditional family values it had been known for portraying. Transgenderism, LGBT ideologies, quotas, and more now permeate its products, which in recent years have fallen far short of customer acceptance and financial expectations.
A report by the Post Millennial points out that the company's ideology now "lacks a rational business purpose."
The report explained the "demand letter" charges Disney's DEI ideology has "led to a significant drop in the company's value.
"The legal challenge comes in the wake of revelations made by American First Legal in February regarding Disney's alleged use of race and sex quotas in its hiring practices. The legal group filed a federal civil rights complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, citing public documents and internal memos as evidence of discriminatory hiring practices," the report explained.
"Specifically, the complaint alleges that Disney imposes hiring quotas, requiring at least 50 percent of a hiring group to be members of an 'unrepresented group' for various positions, both on and behind the camera. This policy reportedly extends to characters on screen, actors, as well as the overall crew and staff involved in Disney General Entertainment productions."
The legal team argues that Disney's use of race, ethnicity, and sex in "hiring, training, compensation, and promotion" is unlawful and violates federal civil rights laws.
The report notes Disney's market cap was about $341 billion in 2021, but now is only $207 billion, a plunge of 40%.
The company is accused of refusing to adequately disclose to shareholders the financial risk created by adopting its now-"woke" ideologies.
"Disney has displayed an inexplicable disregard for its customers and shareholders, forcing radical gender-expansive, anti-White, and anti-police content on families while providing warnings about harmful content on uncontroversial content," the legal group said.
WND had reported only a day earlier that the corporation was folding in its fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his moves to impose a state oversight board.
The company for decades essentially had been its government, controlling the Reedy Creek Improvement District within which its facilities exist. DeSantis' new board now will make decisions for that district, independent of company control.
That move developed when the company publicly attacked the state for its move to create and protect parental rights for their children in schools. Specifically, the concern was LGBT indoctrination for children.
Critics inaccurately called it the "Don't Say Gay" bill, as that was nowhere in the parental rights plan.
This week, the company said it was dropping its lawsuits against DeSantis over that fight.
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Bureaucrats in the American government are planning a new censorship campaign, one that would ban words that are "hurtful" to Muslims, such as "jihadist."
Also in the bull's eye are terms like "blacklisted," "cakewalk" and many more.
It is the Washington Free Beacon reporting Joe Biden's Office of the Director of National Intelligence has revealed its "woke" agenda to eliminate terms that "offend Muslims and foment racism against employees."
Banned would be "Islamic terrorists," "brown bag," "grandfathered," and "sanity check."
The report explains the thought process behind the censorship includes that "jihadist" offends Muslims and "black-listed" "implies black is bad and white is good."
"'Cakewalk' is said to refer 'to a dance performed by slaves for slave owners on plantation grounds,'" the report said.
The new speech demands are included in a language guide produced internally by the bureaucracy.
The report explained, "The document is the latest example of how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives inside the American government are reshaping how employees speak to one another and perform their national security jobs. Critics describe these programs as part of a 'woke' cultural shift promoted by far-left activists and their allies in the Biden administration. Republicans in Congress are looking to strip millions in federal funding for DEI programs across the military and other agencies, arguing they fundamentally harm the country’s national security operations across the globe."
"U.S. intelligence officials are being trained to use terms that don't 'disparage' China or Islamic terrorists. Wokeness is a gift to our adversaries," charged Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., of the House Armed Services Committee.
The internal magazine agenda explained its ideology: "What we say can make or break rapport, elevate or tarnish a reputation, and even support or refute a narrative. As employees of the [intelligence community], our work and our words are forever etched in history and speak volumes to the important work we carry out in service of the greater good. It is paramount that we are cognizant about the terminology we use in every aspect of our duties."
Insiders claimed "trainings and official presentations" conflated Islamists with terrorism, and called that "offensive."
The recommendations are a product of discussions among "nine diversity advisory committees" inside the intelligence apparatus.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in response that using generic terminology can interfere with safety and security operations.
"October 7 was carried out by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. That is an inconvenient fact to the language, commissars, who I presume want to edit out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad," he said. "If the intelligence community has no idea, and refuses to acknowledge what is happening, it means they will be utterly ineffective in fighting against it and keeping Americans and our allies safe."
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New polling shows that support for same-sex marriage in the United States has fallen – for the first time in nearly a decade.
A report originally published in the Washington Stand cites results from the Public Religion Research Institute, which released the American Values Atlas Tuesday.
It showed that support for same-sex marriage dropped from 69% to 67% from 2022 to 2023.
The report noted the last time there was a drop when it went from 54% to 53%, was almost 10 years ago.
"Among Republicans, support for same-sex marriage dropped from 49% in 2022 to 47% in 2023," the report said, noting that still was 12 points higher than in 2014.
"There was also a similar drop in support among independent voters, from 73% in 2022 to 71% in 2023. Support for same-sex marriage has risen among Democrats from 65% in 2014 to 82% in 2023," the report noted.
The decline appeared to cover most religious groups, with support among American Catholics down from 75% to 73% from 2022 to 2023. Hispanic Catholics were down from 75% to 68%.
Other categories currently: Mormons, 47%; Hispanic Protestants, 44%; Muslims, 40%; white evangelicals, 37% and more.
The polling shows that a majority of Americans still support "LGBTQ nondiscrimination policies," but that support also was dropping. The poll said 80% of Americans supported nondiscrimination policies in 2022, but only 76% did in 2023.
Republican support there was down from 66% to 59%.
Also revealed was that 52% of LGBTQ community members consider themselves religiously unaffiliated. "About a third (35%) of those who identify as LGBTQ also identify as Christian, but the institute noted that those who reject 'Christian nationalism' are 'nearly unanimous (93%) in their support' for both same-sex marriage and nondiscrimination policies," the report explained.
"It's interesting to me that this very sophisticated survey funded by pro-LGBT advocacy organizations managed to have a series of questions related to 'Christian nationalist' support for/opposition to LGBT rights or protections," Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow at Family Research Center, told the Stand.
"That’s classic framing by the Left, casting Christians—or simply people who don’t think men can marry other men—as the odious troublemakers. The longer we live with the effects of sexual liberation, the less people will like it."