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Key cannabis compounds may help in the battle against one of the deadliest diseases

Talk about a new joint effort in cancer care.

A promising treatment approach for one of the most dangerous cancers has been identified by a team of researchers in Thailand exploring the effects of key cannabis compounds.

The research team looked at the two most well-known compounds in weed plants — THC and CBD — and discovered that both produced significant anti-cancer activity when tested on ovarian cancer cells.

Each slowed cell growth, formed fewer and smaller clusters and prevented them from spreading.

The results were most notable when CBD and THC were used as a combined treatment, proving highly effective at killing a large number of cancerous cells.

While more research is needed, a medication derived from marijuana could be developed to treat ovarian cancer, the 5th deadliest female cancer in the US, affecting more than 20,000 women each year.

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REPORT: Kamala Harris Planning Another Presidential Campaign

The humiliation of the 2024 presidential campaign clearly wasn’t enough for Kamala Harris.

The former vice-president, who lost in a landslide to Donald Trump last November, has reportedly “made clear to potential 2028 rivals that she’s working to keep another White House campaign viable.”

Axios reports:

Despite worries from party leaders and donors that she can’t win, Harris remains at or near the top of most 2028 Democratic primary polls.

She also has strong support among Black voters — the most critical voting bloc in most recent Democratic presidential primaries.

After lying low the first part of this year and then embarking on a 2024-focused book tour, Harris made several moves this week that many Democrats see as the beginnings of a 2028 campaign.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, mingled with national party officials and state party chairs in Los Angeles this week during the DNC’s winter meeting.

At a reception Wednesday evening, DNC chair Ken Martin introduced Emhoff as the former second gentleman and quipped that he could be the future first gentleman, people who heard the remarks told Axios.

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FBI arrests 4 alleged members of radical pro-Palestinian group accused of plotting New Year’s Eve bombings

Federal authorities say they disrupted a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged members of a radical pro-Palestinian extremist group accused of planning coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings in Los Angeles.

The FBI told Fox News Digital that the members self-identified as part of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology. 

According to the FBI, they were allegedly planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve using improvised explosive devices, targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles.

The agency said the four were arrested in Lucerne Valley, where they were believed to be preparing to test explosive devices ahead of the planned attacks. They have each been charged with conspiracy and possession of a destructive device.

The FBI said Monday that a fifth individual believed to be connected to the same TILF extremist group was arrested in New Orleans for allegedly planning a separate attack.

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Woke Libs Freak Out and Label Pantone’s Color of the Year ‘Racist,’ Then Look (Even More) Ridiculous When They Learn Who Runs the Company

Just to get this out of the way, I find the mere concept of “Color of the Year” incredibly stupid.

But it takes a particularly special brand of stupid to then get offended over such an absurd concept.

And, well, you’re not going to find a more special brand of stupid than when dealing with the terminally offended far-left.

Cosmetic conglomerate Pantone unveiled its annual “Color of the Year” for 2026 recently — believe it or not — and next year’s top color was deemed “Cloud Dancer.”

To this inartistic writer, it just looks like a slightly muddled shade of white. And that’s about where I’d stop thinking about something so frivolous.

Oh, but not the far left.

As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, “Woke liberals are slamming Pantone’s color of the year, labeling it ‘racist’ and ‘tone-deaf.’”

(Of course they’re melting down. Isn’t it just exhausting?)

One Instagram critique claimed that this color choice “unintentionally aligns with cultural and political symbolism that many of us find deeply troubling.”

Others dredged up actress Sydney Sweeney, who was involved in her own ridiculous controversy over some jean ads.

There’s just no other way to say this: These people need lives. They need to touch grass. They need to go experience what the real world is like.

Because let me tell you, people dealing with real issues — health, finances, work — don’t have the time or care to get riled up over something as benign as a makeup company’s favorite color.

This whole meltdown is even dumber when you realize a few key facts.

First, and pretty importantly, those accusing Pantone of being racist are tacitly accusing a black woman of running a racist company.

Sky Kelley, the president of Pantone, is a black woman. It seems aggressively unlikely that anti-black racism was somehow at the forefront of her thought, if she signed off on the color choice in the first place.

As mentioned above, Kelley has real issues — like running a massive corporation — to worry about, instead of perceived racial slights.

Second, guess what Pantone’s color of the year was for 2025? “Mocha Mousse,” a decidedly shiny shade of brown.

Notice how white conservatives didn’t start crying “MUH RACISM” after that one.

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The Nonsense of Christian Zionism

I am sure this going to anger some people, but so be it. Christian Zionism is a theological and political movement primarily among evangelical Protestants (especially in the United States) that expresses strong support for the modern State of Israel and the Jewish people’s right to the land. Its beliefs are rooted in a particular interpretation of the Bible—known as dispensational premillennialism—which views biblical prophecies as literal and still applicable today.

Christian Zionists (aka CZs) take God’s covenants with Abraham and his descendants (the Jewish people) as eternal and unconditional. The CZs rely to two snippets from the Old Testament / Pentateuch to justify exalting the modern state of Israel:

Genesis 12:3: “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.”

Genesis 17:8: God promises the land of Canaan “to you and your descendants after you… as an everlasting possession.”

Christian Zionists support Israel because they believe the Bible literally promises the Jewish people an eternal covenant with the land, that modern Israel fulfills ancient prophecy, and that backing Israel aligns believers with God’s end-times plan and brings divine blessing. This theological conviction drives both spiritual solidarity and strong political advocacy.

But there are several problems with this. Let’s start with the polygamous activities of Abraham. The initial promises to Abraham in Genesis (e.g., Genesis 12:1–3, 15:18) are broad, speaking of blessing Abraham’s “offspring” or “seed” (zera in Hebrew) without naming a specific child. Abraham had eight sons total: Ishmael (with Hagar), Isaac (with Sarah), and six others (Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah) with Keturah (Genesis 25:1–6). Abraham, if he were alive today, would fit in well in some Florida retirement villages that are notorious for rampant sexual activity among the senior citizens.

So why do the CZs assume that God’s promise to Abraham only applies to Isaac and not the other seven offspring? I maintain that is a consequence of author bias. The traditional Jewish (and much Christian) view attributes the entire Torah—including the first five books (Genesis through Deuteronomy)—to Moses himself, around the 13th–15th century BCE, as divine revelation received at Sinai and written down by Moses. The is ZERO archeological evidence to support that claim.

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Former Prince Andrew May Live in Decrepit Farm After Leaving Royal Lodge Mansion, as Late Virginia Giuffre’s Family Is Furious With Met Police for Dropping Investigation on Him

Disgraced former Prince Andrew is still in the world’s headlines – for the usual bad reasons.

Late Jeffrey Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre’s family is furious with Met police, saying that ‘justice has not been served’ upon learning that the Met Police announced they will drop a probe against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former Prince and Duke of York.

Andrew reportedly asked his security officer to ‘dig up dirt’ on his accuser Giuffre.

“A bombshell email obtained by the Mail on Sunday exposed how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard to find out information on Virginia Giuffre and passed him her date of birth and confidential social security number.”

The two-tier Met Police force announced on Friday (12) that it will not launch an investigation into the matter.

“Ms. Giuffre’s family has said they are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the force’s decision to drop the investigation ‘without explanation’, adding they were not told the announcement was being made.

[…] ‘With the Epstein files about to be released by [the US] congress since the passage of the Epstein Transparency Act, we are surprised that the Metropolitan Police didn’t wait to see what further evidence might appear.

‘While we have hailed the UK’s overall handling of the case of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor previously, today we feel justice has not been served’.”

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Minnesota High School Threatens to Suspend Students Who Talk Positively About ICE

A Minnesota high school has threatneed to suspend students who talk positively about Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Paul Paetzel, the principal at Edina High School in Minnesota, has warned that making reference to the work of ICE agents and President Trump’s policy of mass deportations goes against the “culture” that his school is trying to foster.

He wrote in a letter parents:

I want to speak directly and proactively about the culture we are committed to creating at Edina High School.

As we continue to grow as a community, it is essential that we are clear about the expectations we hold for language and behavior that honor the dignity of every student.

Making light of immigration threats or referencing ICE in ways that cause fear or humiliation is a serious offense and not representative of our core values.

Behavior of this nature fundamentally violates our commitment to providing a safe and equitable learning environment free from harassment.

Such language and behaviors directly contradict Edina Public Schools’ vision and mission, and what we expect of our students.

If this type of behavior occurs, we will honor the discipline policy and move forward with consequences up to and including suspension.

Our responsibility is to protect every student’s right to feel safe, respected, and valued at school.

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Why are we paying Canadian dairy farmers who are producing more?

Every once in a while, someone inside a tightly protected system decides to say the quiet part out loud. That is what Joel Fox, a dairy farmer from the Trenton, Ontario area, did recently in the Ontario Farmer newspaper. In a candid open letter, Fox questioned why established dairy farmers like himself continue to receive increasingly large government payouts — even though the sector is not shrinking, but expanding. His piece, titled “We continue to privatize gains, socialize losses,” did not come from an economist or a critic of supply management. It came from someone who benefits from it. And yet his message was unmistakable: the numbers no longer add up.

Fox’s letter marks something we have not seen in years — a rare moment of internal dissent from a system that usually speaks with one voice. It is the first meaningful crack since the viral milk-dumping video by Ontario dairy farmer Jerry Huigen, who filmed himself being forced to dump thousands of litres of perfectly good milk because of quota rules. Huigen’s video exposed contradictions inside supply management, but the system quickly closed ranks. Until now. Fox has reopened a conversation that has been dormant for far too long.

In his letter, Fox admitted he would cash his latest $14,000 Dairy Direct Payment Program (DDPP) cheque, despite believing the program wastes taxpayer money. The DDPP was created to offset supposed losses from trade agreements like CETA, CPTPP, and CUSMA. These deals were expected to reduce Canada’s dairy market. But those “losses” are theoretical — based on models and assumptions about future erosion in market share. Meanwhile, domestic dairy demand has strengthened.

Which raises the obvious question: why are we compensating dairy farmers for producing less when they are, in fact, producing more?

This month, dairy farmers received another 1% quota increase, on top of several increases totalling 4% to 5% in recent years. Quota — the right to produce milk — only increases when more supply is needed. If trade deals had truly devastated the sector, quota would be falling, not rising. Instead, Canada’s population has grown by nearly six million since 2015, processors have expanded, and consumption remains stable. The market is expanding.

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Outrageous: Drexel Medical School Enshrines CRT and ‘Antiracism’ As Part of Doctors Duty

In the latest outrageous virtue signaling in academia, Campus Reform is reporting Drexel University’s College of Medicine is pushing an ‘Antiracism in Healthcare’ module for medical students that a conservative organization accuses of “prioritizing ideological indoctrination over scientific inquiry.”

Medicine was never meant to be a place for social experiments and virtue signaling.

According to Campus Reform, “The module, which appears on the college’s website, promises to teach students to ‘explain how structural, cultural, and individual racism have shaped our common history and have led to vast societal disparities in education, policing, wealth and healthcare, and to “commit to being antiracist in your attitudes and behaviors.’”

This seems to bear little relevance to actually practicing medicine, a field where any sort of politics or ideology should not play a role.

One section of this module even makes the outlandish claim that “structural racism accounts for health disparities.”

In other words, now people getting sick is also a result of racism according to Left-wing ideology.

“Perhaps the great majority of healthcare providers would deny that they are racist or let biases influence their patient care,” the module says.

“Yet there are great disparities in healthcare and health outcomes between racial groups. Certainly, structural racism accounts for many of these disparities.”

Another section of this module is focused on the canon of woke ideology, CRT, or critical race theory.

According to this absurd theory, race is a social construct and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice but has become structural.”

“Do No Harm, a conservative nonprofit organization that advocates for removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from medicine, criticized the Drexel module for valuing an identity-based ideology over science.”

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Christmas Alert: AI-Powered Toys Teach Children How to Light Matches, Engage in ‘Kink’

A new wave of AI-powered toys has hit the market this holiday season, but experts warn that the technology powering these interactive companions is largely untested and exposes children to inappropriate content and safety risks. Christmas shoppers are warned to think twice before buying a cute plushie for a child that may instruct them on Chinese communism or talk to them about sexual preferences.

NBC News reports that the popularity of AI-powered toys has skyrocketed this year, with major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target now offering a wide range of interactive companions that claim to engage children in conversation using advanced artificial intelligence. However, new research from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (PIRG) and tests conducted by NBC News have uncovered alarming issues with many of these toys, raising serious concerns about their safety and suitability for young children.

According to R.J. Cross, who led the research at PIRG, the AI technology powering these toys are rushed to market and so poorly tested that the potential effects on children are largely unknown. “When you talk about kids and new cutting-edge technology that’s not very well understood, the question is: How much are the kids being experimented on?” Cross said. “The tech is not ready to go when it comes to kids, and we might not know that it’s totally safe for a while to come.”

PIRG’s research, released Thursday, identified several toys that shared inappropriate, dangerous, and explicit information with users. NBC News also purchased and tested five popular AI toys, including Miko 3, Alilo Smart AI Bunny, Curio Grok, Miriat Miiloo, and FoloToy Sunflower Warmie. The tests revealed that some toys had loose guardrails or surprising conversational parameters, allowing them to provide explicit and alarming responses to certain questions.

For example, Miiloo, a plush toy advertised for children as young as three, gave detailed instructions on how to light a match and sharpen a knife when asked. The toy, manufactured by the Chinese company Miriat, would also at times indicate that it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values, insisting that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China” and calling comparisons of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh “extremely inappropriate and disrespectful.”

Other toys tested, like the Alilo Smart AI Bunny, engaged in long and detailed descriptions of sexual practices, including “kink,” sexual positions, and sexual preferences when prompted. Experts worry that extended interactions with these AI companions could lead to emotional dependency and bonding in children, as well as potential developmental effects associated with prolonged screen time.

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