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04/03/2026

What’s going on?
Why is the media parroting CCP talking points and targeting Shen Yun, a US-based performing arts show?

🎬 UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun

“When Shen Yun first started being attacked by the media, initially, I was thinking, I'll stay out of it because I'm not even in Shen Yun anymore.

It doesn't really affect me.

It doesn't affect my life, my career.

But after I read some of them, I was like, this is really, really wrong.

It's very heartbreaking.

I do feel very sad for the people who do read the article and they do believe it because that's completely not what it is like here or what I've been through.

It's completely the opposite.”

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04/02/2026

How did the China Daily—a mouthpiece for the CCP—end up in the halls of Congress?

“I think it’s unacceptable, and we should ban it,” says Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Ariz.).

“If freedom is extinguished here at home, there is no place to go. So we can never allow ourselves to bend the knee to the Marxist communist.”

03/31/2026

Popping antacids every time heartburn hits?

You're probably making it worse long-term.

Loyalist militiamen crept silently in the cold, predawn hours of Feb. 27, 1776, hoping to seize a small bridge that span...
03/30/2026

Loyalist militiamen crept silently in the cold, predawn hours of Feb. 27, 1776, hoping to seize a small bridge that spanned a narrow creek. Waiting for them were Patriot militiamen, hidden in the darkness, muskets ready. Both sides believed their cause was just.

North Carolina’s civil war—nested inside the larger Revolutionary War—was about to erupt over this vital chokepoint. The bridge itself was not the true prize. It was what lay beyond it: the coast and a British army waiting offshore.

If the Patriots succeeded, the Crown’s southern strategy would unravel. But if they failed and the two forces linked up, North Carolina would be dragged back under royal rule, and the emerging independence movement in the South would be crushed by spring.

The Plan

By February 1776, the war in the North had hardened into stalemate. Boston remained under British occupation, yet rebellion had spread well beyond Massachusetts Bay. In London, Britain’s senior ministers searched for a way to break the deadlock.

Gov. Josiah Martin of North Carolina believed he had the answer.

Writing from aboard the sloop HMS Cruizer, where he had taken refuge after fleeing the Patriot takeover of his colony, Martin assured Lord Dartmouth, Britain’s secretary of state for the colonies, that thousands of Loyalists stood ready to defend the Crown. Among those he cited as likely participants were former Regulators—still bitter over their defeat in the Regulator War—and Scottish Highlanders who had recently settled in North Carolina. If properly armed and supported, Martin argued, they would rise and fight.

Highland Scots were already highly sought after for their warrior spirit by both the Patriots and the British Army. The Continental Congress dispatched two Presbyterian ministers to persuade them to join the Patriot cause, but their inability to speak Gaelic doomed the mission from the outset.

As a precaution, Martin dispatched customs officer Alexander Schaw to London as his emissary to personally urge approval of the plan. The Privy Council favored the southern expedition, and the British Cabinet, with the backing of King George III, authorized it. A fleet under Sir Peter Parker would transport seven regiments from Ireland under Lord Charles Cornwallis. Gen. William Howe was instructed to detach a force of 2,000 men—led by Gen. Henry Clinton—from Boston and link up with Parker and Cornwallis.

The initial objective was Charles Town—present-day Charleston, South Carolina—a major rebel port and base of operations. But Schaw pressed for an alternative. North Carolina, he argued, should be taken first. With the support of a large Loyalist militia, the colony could be seized with relative ease, opening the interior to British control and making the capture of South Carolina far simpler. He persuaded the council that North Carolina was the key.

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Every art expert dreams of authenticating an old master painting. Remarkably, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterda...
03/29/2026

Every art expert dreams of authenticating an old master painting. Remarkably, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam just had this once-in-a-lifetime honor.

In 1960, art experts removed “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” from Rembrandt’s oeuvre. An anonymous art collector then acquired the work in 1961, and its whereabouts remained unknown. More than 65 years later, on March 2, 2026, the Rijksmuseum announced the painting was indeed by the Dutch master.

“We always hope to find a new Rembrandt, but this happens rarely,” Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits told The Associated Press.

The museum’s researchers spent the last two years analyzing the work and comparing it with paintings that Rembrandt created around the same time. They observed similarities in the paint pigments, painting techniques, and compositional changes. They also used dendrochronological analysis (dating the wood) pinpointing the panel painting to 1633.

According to “The Oxford Companion to Art,” most artists in 17th-century Holland painted “people or things around them.” But Rembrandt’s commissions around 1633 were mostly religious and allegorical themes—subjects he’d paint throughout his lifetime.

The Rijkmuseum’s experts noted that “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” aligned with the quality and style of the biblical commissions that the then 27 year-old Rembrandt painted around the same time, including “Simeon’s Song of Praise,” “Daniel and Cyrus Before the Idol Bel,” and “Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem.”

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When does education begin? Is it when the child first enters a preschool classroom? Or first opens a book? Or first asks...
03/28/2026

When does education begin? Is it when the child first enters a preschool classroom? Or first opens a book? Or first asks an important question? I would suggest it begins before all these incidents, important though they may be.

Education is an opening up of the whole person to the light of reality, so that body, mind, and soul may be suffused with the luminosity of being. And that light begins to shine—growing incrementally brighter, like early morning sunrays—in early infancy. Thus, the process of education begins long before the first schoolbook is ever opened.

Our specialized, mechanistic, assembly-line educational model has trained us to think of education solely as book learning, technical know-how, and career training, but it is so much more than that (even though it contains those elements). True education forms the whole person, from limbs to emotions to memory to imagination to intellect, and that formation begins in the home at the very dawn of life.

Aristotle taught that all knowledge begins in the senses, and for this reason the first level of education takes place at the level of the body and its raw contact with the world around it. Educator John Senior—drawing on Aristotle and other traditional thinkers—envisioned three main stages or dimensions of education, following one upon the other, although with plenty of overlap. The first stage is the gymnastic stage, in which students develop their physical and sensory abilities, attuning their bodies to the world, learning to hear, taste, and see the hum, rhythm, and rush of natural things. The second stage is the poetic, where the sensory experiences of the first stage ignite the imagination, which is developed through poetry, song, dance, art, myth, and the like, guiding the gaze upward toward the great deeds of the past and the mysteries of nature, such as the stars. The third stage is the philosophical, where students delve deepest into abstract concepts and the acquisition of wisdom, which can now be erected firmly on the healthy development of the body, emotions, imagination, and memory accomplished in the first two stages.

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03/28/2026

"Beijing sees it as an attack because Shen Yun is saying: No. Take a look at it, because that's what China was before communism."

"[The CCP] understands that the major threat to their regime is not economic. It is for what they used to call the hearts and minds of people. They see that as the sort of center of gravity under which their regime could be in trouble," says investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.

Your phone, your food, and your shower gel may be conspiring against your testosterone. At least, that’s what a growing ...
03/27/2026

Your phone, your food, and your shower gel may be conspiring against your testosterone. At least, that’s what a growing number of urologists are telling their youngest patients.

Men in their 30s and 40s are arriving at urology clinics with hormone profiles that would once have been unremarkable in men twice their age. Doctors say the pattern is new, the numbers are worsening, and the causes are hiding in plain sight.

“We have not seen such a decline in men in their 30s and 40s, of testosterone, sexual function, s***m quality, s***m number in generations compared to generations prior to the Millennium group,” Geo Espinosa, a board-certified naturopathic doctor and integrative urologist, presented his findings at the recent Integrative Health Symposium. “They’re suffering quietly—I’m not mincing words, this is an absolute crisis.”

A Silent Decline in Testosterone

Testosterone—the hormone responsible for libido, muscle mass, and overall vitality—is dropping at rates specialists describe as alarming. Some men in their 30s are presenting with levels typically associated with men in their 60s or 70s.

Low testosterone (hypogonadism) is detrimental for young men because it functions as a master regulator for both physical and mental health. While levels naturally decline by 1 to 2 percent per year after age 30, abnormally low levels in younger men can trigger a vicious cycle of metabolic, sexual, and psychological issues.

Recent research confirms this additional, age-independent decline in men.

A modest decline of around 1 percent per decade is considered normal with age, but researchers and clinicians say that the baseline is being dramatically undercut in younger men by a convergence of factors: poor sleep, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and daily exposure to environmental chemicals.

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There’s something truly special about train travel. Very likely it’s the sensory elements: the feeling of rocking down t...
03/27/2026

There’s something truly special about train travel. Very likely it’s the sensory elements: the feeling of rocking down the tracks, the clickety-clack sound, the scent that I call—for lack of a better term—“train smell,” the enchanting mélange of creosote and diesel fumes and hot steel. Traveling by rail has, for centuries, been a total auditory, olfactory, visual, and tactile experience.

But it’s more than that, I think. Part of the enjoyment is locked to the fact that once you’ve boarded a railcar, there’s little else to do. Yes, we have our iPads and phones and enough work and entertainment to get a long way down the track. But with, say, a cruise ship, you can always get up and explore the buffet or see a show. With a car? You can take the next exit and find yourself a tank of gas, a Slim Jim, and a new pair of cheap sunglasses. And although I guess the same could be said for planes and buses, they’re not nearly so much fun (especially the latter).

There’s just something about a long journey by rail, which—even in our age of speed and urgency—still somehow holds its romance.

A 40-year-old office worker with a demanding schedule often skipped meals. By the time she finally felt hungry, she crav...
03/27/2026

A 40-year-old office worker with a demanding schedule often skipped meals. By the time she finally felt hungry, she craved sugary foods for a quick fix. As a result, her blood sugar levels fluctuated significantly, which in turn affected her mood. She also struggled with poor concentration and reported poor sleep quality.

She later consulted a registered dietitian to develop a structured meal plan. Her staple foods were replaced with low-glycemic index options, and each meal was designed to provide balanced nutrition, including whole grains or minimally refined mixed grains, high-quality protein, vegetables, dietary fiber, and an appropriate amount of healthy fats.

Over time, her blood sugar levels stabilized, and her cravings for snacks gradually subsided. She also experienced fewer episodes of overeating and no longer felt unexplained irritability or anxiety.

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