‘No Critical Thinking’: Parents Sound Alarm as Tech Begins to ‘Replace the Teacher’

Parents are growing increasingly concerned about the prevalence of technology in classrooms, and the negative side effects that change is fueling among children nationwide.

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools to remote learning, many have only grown increasingly reliant on technology, shifting assignments into digital forms and handing every student a computer or tablet to aid their education in the classroom. But after seeing their kids become angrier, less sociable, and less educated, parents are asking where the teachers have gone.

“What are we doing with an iPad all day, for eight hours a day in our kids’ hands?” Patricia McCoy, a mother of four in Wyoming, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Honestly, it’s disturbing. They give your kids worksheets on the iPad. There’s no actual critical thinking happening because they’re given apps to replace the teachers.” Click here to read more.

 

What Brought the Trump Administration to the Brink with the Venezuelan Regime

At this writing, the United States appears to be on the verge of military action against Venezuelan regime. The president of the United States has de facto closed Venezuelan airspace — via Truth Social, of course — and the largest concentration of American military power in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility since the 1989 Christmas season is gathered across the Caribbean basin. Naval assets are afloat to the north of the Venezuelan littoral, and American bases and facilities have emerged (or been reactivated) not just in U.S.-controlled territories like Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay, but in sovereign allies such as Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic. All this raises obvious questions, foremost among them: Why now, and why Venezuela?

Anyone outside of the administration who offers definitive answers to either is misleading at worst and incomplete at best. The decision-makers know their full rationales and will share them when they wish. For now, even the legal memorandum justifying the strikes on maritime traffickers remains undisclosed. Click here to read more.

Mich. officer rushes to perform CPR, save choking baby

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — A Sterling Heights police officer is being celebrated for his life-saving actions on a baby boy who had stopped breathing after choking in a Walmart store.

Officer Edwar Talia responded to the Walmart on Van Dyke Avenue Nov. 1 at around 8:30 p.m. for a report of a 5-month-old infant who was having trouble breathing.

Newly-released bodycam video showed Talia rushing into the Walmart to find the distraught mother with her child, who appeared not to be breathing. He began giving continuous back blows to the infant, which cleared the airway and allowed the child to breathe on his own again.

“I rushed in there — the doors could not open fast enough,” Talia told WXYZ-TV ( Channel 7 ) Click here to watch video.

 

America First Legal Demands Repeal of Biden-Era Rule That Uses Race to Determine Kidney Transplant Recipients

America First Legal (AFL) has filed a Rulemaking Petition urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to repeal a Biden-era regulation that embeds race-conscious policies into America’s organ transplant system.”

The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model, which took effect on July 1, 2025, alters how transplant hospitals determine who receives a kidney during the transplant process. Instead of relying solely on clinical urgency and established medical criteria, the Biden Administration directed hospitals to factor race, ethnicity, and “equity” into allocation decisions—an outgrowth of the administration’s sweeping equity agenda aimed at confronting the “unbearable human costs of systemic racism.”

Under this model, select hospitals must operate within an equity-driven framework that pressures them to adopt race-conscious transplant policies. As part of the model, hospitals are encouraged to submit “ Health Equity Plans” to CMS that:

• Identify target “health disparities” based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.

• Develop “targeted strategies to close those gaps.”

• Conduct a “resource gap analysis” to reorient staffing, funding, and operational needs around equity goals.

• Establish performance measures designed to achieve predetermined racial and ethnic outcomes in transplant access. Click here to read more.

 

FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots

The US Food and Drug Administration said that at least 10 children had likely died “because of” COVID-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible cause, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report outside business hours. But FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on Saturday confirmed the report during a TV interview.

“There were, it appears, 10 deaths of children from the COVID shots,” he told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” weekend show, citing data gathered during the Biden administration. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sharply changed government policy on COVID vaccines, limiting access to them to people 65 and older, as well as those with underlying conditions.

Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine crusader before taking on the nation’s top health post under President Donald Trump, has also linked vaccines to autism and sought to rewrite the country’s immunization policies. Click here to read more.

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Six-figure salaries increase by 474% at Michigan health department

Michigan taxpayers are paying the salaries of more than 4,000 six-figure employees at the state health department, even as the agency’s failures have produced fraud and hundreds of millions in erroneous benefit payments.

The number of high-earners employed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services grew from 513 in fiscal year 2020 to 2,944 in fiscal year 2024, an increase of 474%.

The growth of high-earners in the state health department outpaces that of the rest of Michigan’s government. The number of high-end employees in Michigan’s government increased from 6,945 in fiscal year 2020 to 18,647 in fiscal year 2024, an increase of 168%. Click here to read more.

 

CBS Exploits a Murdering Mother Superior

The cultural stereotype of a Catholic nun is often very uptight—as in unmercifully swatting a child’s knuckles with a ruler—but sometimes it’s more violent. Nuns plot murders.

This happened on the CBS crime drama/dramedy “Elsbeth” on Nov. 20. The main character, Elsbeth Tascioni, is a Chicago lawyer sent to New York City to enforce a federal consent decree with the New York Police Department. But every week, she’s solving murders while she floats around in flamboyant outfits and a collection of large handbags. Click here to read more.

 

Michigan man faces 20-year felony over threats to ‘eradicate’ Oakland County GOP, burn down HQ, ‘put a bullet’ in teen leader

A Waterford man faces up to two decades in prison after he allegedly threatened to kill Republicans and burn down the party’s Oakland County office over his frustrations with the 47^th POTUS.

Ryan Lewis Vallance, 34, was arraigned in District Court on Tuesday on a count of false report – threats of terrorism, over Facebook messages to the Oakland County Republican Party and Michigan GOP Youth Vice Chair Krish Mathrani, 19, WJBK reports.

The party contacted Bloomfield Township Police on Saturday over the Facebook messages, which included threats to use “Molotov cocktails for MAGA,” and to “eradicate” members and donors, Oakland County Republicans wrote to a statement. Click here to read more.

 

Campbell’s Cans VP After Hot-Mic Insults Go Public

Campbell’s didn’t wait for a second serving of controversy: the soup company fired a Michigan executive after a leaked recording revealed him trashing the very products he was paid to promote, disparaging customers and coworkers in the process.

Martin Bally, a vice president in the company’s information-security division, was identified in a lawsuit filed by former employee Robert Garza, who says he was fired after reporting Bally’s comments to management. Garza alleges he recorded the November 2024 meeting where Bally dismissed Campbell’s food as “highly processed” and “for poor people,” and went on to make racist remarks about Indian employees. Click here to read more.

 

‘Lived under a lie’: Miami man uses dead toddler’s name to build life in the U.S.

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — A Miami man originally from South Africa pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft after stealing a dead toddler’s identity to gain citizenship 40 years ago.

In addition to the identity theft, he was also convicted on October 15 for making a false statement on a passport application.

According to evidence presented during the trial, 68-year-old Vasudevan Pillay first came to the United States in 1985 with a six-month tourist visa.

When Pillay arrived, prosecutors say Pillay stole the identity of a U.S. citizen who had died decades earlier as a toddler. Click here to read more.

WEXFORD COUNTY Mich. Authorities say the fiancé of a pregnant woman who vanished more than three weeks ago has been taken into custody after searchers discovered a body in the Manistee National Forest.

Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a body was located in a remote part of the forest in Boon during an ongoing search for 32 year old Rebecca Park. Park was last seen on November 4 and her disappearance prompted extensive searches across northern Michigan.

The Wexford County Sheriff’s Office said Park’s fiancé, 35 year old Christopher Huspen, was arrested earlier in the day on unrelated warrants. Detectives say he remains a person of interest as they continue processing evidence connected to the case.

Authorities said formal identification of the body is still underway and have not released a cause of death. The Michigan State Police Crime Lab is assisting with the investigation.

Search teams including volunteers had spent weeks combing through rural areas after friends and family reported that Park’s sudden disappearance was out of character. Her vehicle was later located in a wooded area near Boon which intensified the search effort.

Officials say more information will be released once the medical examiner completes the autopsy. The investigation is ongoing.