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This weeks Liberal Media Scream features new evidence that the once proud and respected CNN has no plans to shift away from its ratings disaster and instead is doubling down on its hate for half of the country.

Leading the charge was the grim and humorless Jim Acosta and his lecturing assault on former President Donald Trump and key GOP leaders in what could have been a mildly funny use of the Chinese Olympics to tackle his favorite targets.

But instead, his Saturday CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta was just an overbearing slam of Republicans, Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Now that the GOP has failed to root out the problem, its up to the American people to flush as many times as possible," he said. "Go Team USA."

From the 4 p.m. hour on Saturdays CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta:

JIM ACOSTA: If document preservation hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, Trump would easily take home the gold, which has me thinking about this. Trump and his buddies should consider hosting their own Winter Games. There are some major players to watch. Like Kevin McCarthy speed-skating past questions about the RNC labeling Jan. 6 as legitimate political discourse. And then theres the Tonya Harding of the House GOP, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who discovered a fly in her canned talking points after it was too late.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (voiceover): Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work we do, spying on our staff, and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.

ACOSTA: As some observers noted, first gazpacho police, whats next? Sangria law? Perhaps Ted Cruz could compete. Yes, its true Cancun is probably too warm for the Winter Games, unless theres a tequila luge, in which case, count me in. But the far-right Olympic games would fit right in with its autocratic tendencies. The MAGA Olympics could follow the lead set by China with its freestyle skiing competition at a dystopian-looking Beijing industrial park, not to mention its appalling human rights record.

As for our own cheater in chief back here in the U.S., Trump does not seem very worried as if his punishment is being decided by the Olympic committee rather than the Justice Department. Perhaps in 2024, Trump could run for the White House under the banner: the TIC, the Trump Insurrection Committee. He could bring home yet another gold toilet. But honestly, this is what happens when you allow somebody like Trump to clog the pipes of American democracy. Now that the GOP has failed to root out the problem, its up to the American people to flush as many times as possible. Go Team USA.

Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: This is Exhibit A in the decline and fall of CNN from a news network to place for left-wing commentary that ridicules half the population and the politicians they elect. Acostas smug insults may delight the narrow audience that still watches CNN, but he's talking to a smaller and smaller club of woke liberal elites who find this kind of thing amusing.

Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

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Liberal Media Scream: CNNs Acosta went there, saying to flush Trump - Washington Examiner

By M.D. Kittle

MADISON If leftist state Rep. Lee Snodgrass offered a glimpse into the elitist thinking of the left, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Jill Underly provided a panoramic view.

Snodgrass (D-Appleton), who also serves as vice chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, rightly took a lot of heat last week after attacking on Twitter parents who want to have a say in their childs education. She quickly deleted the tweet. But Snodgrass apology for her tone deaf tweet wasnt much of an apology. She said the tweet was lacking in nuance and easily misinterpreted. Thats the snotty liberal way of saying, I got caught telling my voters what I really think of them.

Gov. Tony Evers wanted nothing to do with the tweet. He saw what happened to his pal Terry McCauliffe after the Virginia Democratic candidate for governor said he didnt think parents should be telling schools what they should teach. McCauliffe lost to Republican Glenn Youngkin, who believes parents do have that right.

Evers quickly disagreed with Snodgrass.

Parents are the first and best teachers our kids have, and we know parent involvement in their kids education is critical to ensuring every students success, he said.

What a phony. The governor who as DPI superintendent spent a decade forcing centralized leftist curriculum and training on Wisconsin school district is suddenly standing up for parents rights? Most recently, he vetoed a bill that would ban radical critical race theory indoctrination in public schools, standing against parents statewide who oppose liberal politics masquerading as education in their childrens classrooms.

Which brings us to the DPI superintendent du jour.

Underly, a bought-and-paid-for stooge of Wisconsins teachers unions, doubled down on Snodgrass snide tweet in An open letter to families and educators. The liberal educrat says she knows what it means to be involved in her childrens education. She blames politicians (Republicans) for talking about parental involvement. More so, she blames parents who dont agree with her.

Family engagement isnt about yelling at school staff or suing your school board if they dont do exactly as you demand. Its also not asking caregivers to homeschool or pay for private tuition if they feel unheard or unseen, Underly writes.

And, like the educrat elitist she is, she proceeds to explain to families what family engagement is. Family engagement is about having a real conversation about and with our children. Its about building relationships and reaching out to teachers when needed, Underly informs us.

Underly insists she knows better. She knows what those wicked politicians mean when they talk about parental rights when it comes to childrens education.

Rather, theyre talking about micromanaging curriculum and preying on our parental emotions during a traumatic time, all with the ulterior motive of placing suspicion on educators by weaponizing lessons about difficult topics, or by placing blame on schools for a pandemic they did not cause but are nonetheless supporting our children through, Underly lectures.

Those politicians, by the way, have children in schools, too. They, like a lot of parents, have had their eyes opened wide during the pandemic on what their kids are and arent learning in their schools. Theyre mad as hell, quite frankly, and theyre not going to take it anymore. More so, they dont believe they should be paying for it anymore.

Underly then preys upon her fellow educators emotions, asserting this isnt the first time that politicians in this state have gone after teachers.

As a former civics teacher, Underly says she knows that teaching the history of the United States of America cannot be done without tackling difficult topics.

Families know this and support these opportunities for our schools to engage our children to become critical thinkers and critical consumers of information. We want our students to grow up and be active participants in democracy, and that means they need to know how to examine their past, think critically about their present, and make informed decisions about their future.

Do they need to know that theyre either white supremacists or perpetual victims of white supremacy? Because thats what many public schools, with the help of critical race theory, anti-racism and other leftist dogma are teaching our children. Its a racist and fundamentally flawed lesson plan. Its the real politics of division in the classroom, and its what so many Wisconsin families are fighting against.

Parents dont just want a say in their childrens education. They demand it because they have every right to demand it.

Theyre waking up. And liberal education elites like Jill Underly and Lee Snodgrass are desperate to silence what is becoming a sweeping parental rights revolution nationwide.

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London: A new report examining global security threats says the West is suffering from helplessness because of the overwhelming variety and number of international crises that voters feel they cannot control.

The Munich Security Report 2022, released ahead of the prestigious German annual conference this week, has previously argued that the democratic world has been suffering from Westlessness whereby liberal democracies were exhibiting a widespread feeling of uneasiness and restlessness in the face of increasing uncertainty about the enduring purpose of the West.

The Munich Security Report said slogans like America First, Take back control, and strategic autonomy had become vote winners.Credit:Getty

Despite sounding the alarm in 2020, report author Tobais Bunde said the situation had worsened and morphed into a sense of collective helplessness exacerbated by the pandemic, climate change and the prospect of war in Eastern Europe and the United States chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Helplessness is a reference to a phenomenon first detected by two psychologists in the 1960s who observed that dogs trained to expect an electric shock after a tone simply laid down and endured the shock even when given the option of escaping it by jumping over a small barrier because the animals felt they could not escape their situation.

The report said this sense had crept into Western voters mind at the start of 2021 a year that began with the insurrection on the US Capitol. 2021 was clearly not a year for geopolitical optimism, the report said.

It measured sentiment in 12 countries, not including Australia, and found that the perception of feeling helpless against global challenges was the view on the rise in them all. Only in China did fewer people feel that their country had no control over global events.

Transatlantic leaders need to demonstrate that both democracy as a system and alliances based on liberal values can deliver.

The report said this was why slogans like America First, take back control and strategic autonomy had become vote winners and why authoritarian powers were capable of projecting a stronger image of governance.

Liberal democracies appear particularly overwhelmed and helpless ... while autocratic governments often project confidence and decisiveness, liberal-democratic countries sometimes appear paralysed, the report said. Turning the tide of crises looks like an ever more difficult task.

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House of Strauss Substack founder Ethan Strauss gave his take on what's behind the Joe Rogan-Spotify controversy on "The Will Cain Podcast" on Fox News Audio:

ETHAN STRAUSS: That's why it created the distinction between "listeners" and "followers," because [TNT NBA analyst] Stan Van Gundy was attacking Joe Rogan and saying that Joe Rogan is a con man and because we have an ignorant populace, that's why he's popular. And if anybody listens to Rogan, whatever you think about him, it's a lot of listening. It's a lot of Joe Rogan listening to whoever the guest is, and you don't know where the episode is going to go, so you take in the information. You're not looking for moral instruction.

But in the case of Van Gundy and a lot of the elder liberal boomers God love them, you know, they're in my neighborhood I like a lot of them, but they read this stuff looking for their moral instruction and looking for, OK, who am I supposed to be mad at today? Oh, I know it's a guy whose podcast I've never listened to. This is the guy I'm mad at today.

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And it's just, I think, aggravating because they're often just shouting down at the masses in this condescending way, and it's very unappealing. I mean, we can get into other aspects of it, but I just found it to be a sort of typography that I could identify. It appeared to resonate. It appeared to strike a nerve. And hey, it's just going to keep on going. We're going to continue to get lectured angrily about how we failed to live up to the expectations of the former coach of the Orlando Magic and the current coach of the San Antonio Spurs [Gregg Popovich].

WILL CAIN: Did you hear from either of them, Van Gundy or Popovich?

STRAUSS: I have not heard from either of them. I reached out to Van Gundy about wanting to have some sort of discourse about some of the issues he talks about. He has not responded. I know that in many respects, he's a nice person in real life. I get it. But I have to say I am not so open-minded in kind when it comes to some of the stuff that he's been saying. I don't know if he knows how much it pisses people off.

I mean, when I read Stan Van Gundy, for instance, tweeting parents opposing mask mandates for students send a message to kids that wearing a mask is too big a hardship for them and too big a sacrifice for them to make to reduce the risk to others what will they do when faced with an actual hardship or asked to make a real sacrifice? I mean, that's just one thing that he said, but it's the type of thing he says, and I don't take kindly to that.

As a father, I don't want my kid to grow up like this. And I find it additionally a little bit ridiculous that I'm constantly told I should hate people like a Joe Rogan or an Aaron Rodgers. You don't want to take the vaccine. I did take the vaccine full disclosure but I should hate them. But I should like these people who want to impose restrictions on my kid When I see that it's ,very unappealing.

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It's unappealing for another reason, which is that these people don't live by the rules they want you to live under. Hypocrisy is transparent. I tune in to games all the time. They do that camera shot at halftime, and what do you see? You see Stan Van Gundy and his broadcast partner at TNT surrounded by a sea of masked people and the announcers are barefaced. And yeah, you could say I would rather hear a game called by a guy without a mask. I certainly would.

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But hey, this is either killing people or it's not. It's either the thing to do or it isn't. If it is, then maybe you should be in a box away from people as opposed to trying to force children to have to wear these masks and not see one another smile.

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By U.S. Sen. Joni ErnstR-IowaWASHINGTON, D.C. When the Biden administration ordered the evacuation of families of U.S. diplomats from Ukraine last month due to the increased threats of Russian military action and crime, a Ukrainian official responded, Quite frankly these Americans are safer in Kyiv than they are in Los Angeles...or any other crime-ridden city in the U.S.

Sadly, he may be right.

In fact, a Los Angeles police department detective said the out-of-control crime in the city is so violent, were telling people dont visit, because we dont think we can keep you safe right now. The city was surrendered to criminals by the LA District Attorney on his first day on the job in 2020 when he banned bail and prohibited prosecuting even the most serious crimes, like murder and rape, to the fullest extent of the law.

The decision to give get of out jail free cards to criminals have consequences.

Thieves are breaking into local businesses. Looters are robbing trains like its the Wild West. A Union Pacific Railroad official said even when apprehended, criminals boast that they will face no serious charges, and within hours they are let back out on the streets. Most troubling, over the past two years, LA has experienced a shocking 94 percent increase in homicides. And who does the LA sheriff blame? The woke policies of both the district attorney and the county board.

Unfortunately, the senseless acts of violence arent confined to liberal Los Angeles.

The U.S. murder rate hit its highest point in a quarter-of-a-century last year. More and more felons are being released across the country as a result of permissive policies being pushed by progressive politicians and lenient district attorneys who view punishment as the real crime.

Democrats in New York, for example, recently pushed through a state law requiring the release of suspects arrested for stalking, arson, robbery, and other misdemeanors, without bail. And despite the dramatic increases in crime in New York City, a Democratic district attorney released a list of crimes on his first day in office that would no longer be prosecuted, including resisting arrest.

Refusing to keep dangerous, repeat criminals with a history of violence behind bars allows anyone, at any time, to become the victim of an entirely preventable crime. For example, the low bail set by a Wisconsin district attorneys office last November resulted in the release of a violent criminal with a long list of charges going back 15 years. Within days of being released, he drove that same SUV into a crowded Christmas parade, injuring more than 60 people and killing six. The Democratic district attorney has since admitted the release was a mistake.

The American people cannot afford any more of these mistakes by public officials who are putting their personal political agenda ahead of protecting the public. Public officials charged with enforcing the law who signal that its okay to commit crime by reducing or eliminating penalties are engaging in criminal negligence. Its time to put an end to prosecutors being partners in crime.

Across the country, violent crime is on the rise, and the Biden administration and other Democratic politicians are asleep at the wheelfailing to take action to keep our citizens safe.

This week, I took the first step toward making our streets safer by introducing legislation to increase the penalties for some violent offenders and child predators, including life imprisonment for repeat offenders. We need progressive prosecutors to stop playing politics and start doing their jobenforcing the law. Criminal penalties are not just suggestions, they are put in place to protect the public.

We also need to ensure we are supporting our men and women in blue the ones who risk their lives every single day to keep our streets safe.

The Lefts defund the police movement has victimized our law enforcement, making it harder for them to do their jobs. Thats why Im proud that here in Iowa, under the leadership of Governor Kim Reynolds, weve taken action with legislation like the Back the Blue Act, increasing penalties on a range of other destructive behaviors and strengthening due process protections for law enforcement. The law also creates accountability for local governments that prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs. Our governor has also proposed giving our law enforcement officers a well-deserved bonus for the uniquely challenging and critical work they do.

Liberal politicians across the country should, once again, follow Iowas lead. Its time we get serious about crime in our country. Our laws need to be enforced, our law enforcement needs to be supported, and perpetrators need to be held accountable. Parents shouldnt have to worry about the safety of their children, and no one should feel unsafe, especially in their own neighborhood. The only people who should be afraid to walk down our streets are criminals.

Joni Ernst, a combat veteran, represents Iowa in the United States Senate.

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Under progressive politicians and liberal DAs, crime is on the rise - The Highland County Press

Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy and four of his colleagues have been fined for not wearing masks at an indoor event in the first week of parliament.

In photographs posted to social media, Mr Guy and other coalition MPs were pictured with former AFL coach Kevin Sheedy not wearing masks last Tuesday, the first sitting day of the year.

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Mr Guy confirmed late on Monday that Victoria Police had issued fines to him and coalition MPs Peter Walsh, David Davis, Gary Blackwood and Melina Bath for failing to wear a face mask in an indoor setting.

On Tuesday, Victoria Police confirmed each fine issued was for $100.

Wearing a mask is required in all Victorian workplaces, including state parliament, unless rising to speak in either chamber or eating or drinking.

He claimed he had a coffee with him during the speech, as did several other MPs, while others took their mask off for the photos.

A Parliament of Victoria work health and safety memo sent on Tuesday reminded MPs and staff of the continuing requirement for masks to be worn in the workplace.

In a statement on Monday, Mr Guy said the Victorian Liberals and Nationals cooperated with Victoria Police in relation to this matter and accordingly the fines will be paid promptly.

The Victorian Liberals and Nationals will continue to advocate for the removal of face mask mandates in low-risk settings so we can begin to recover, rebuild and move forward, the statement said.

Premier Daniel Andrews, who was fined $400 in October last year after he was filmed arriving at parliament not wearing a mask on two occasions, denied the rules were confusing.

The premier also rejected the notion images of their unmasked political opponents were referred to Victoria Police by Labor after they were raised in the lower house during Tuesdays heated Question Time.

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This is a fascinating start for the self-proclaimed new generation of angels sent to keep the bastards honest, as the independent turned Liberal turned Democrat Don Chipp once said.

No wonder the old school independents are seething.

But the problem for the Liberal Party is more than just the calibre of new wave independents. For decades the success of the party electorally has been due to strong performances by party leaders and local campaigns with robust policies and an enduring philosophy.

In some extreme cases parliamentary leaders have even rescued victory from the jaws of defeat by effectively bypassing the partys head office organisation. More often than not the Liberal Party has won elections despite, not because of, the party organisation.

Head office support has been notoriously hopeless, stricken by factionalism, poor resourcing and pathetic levels of membership.

But as with many dysfunctional organisations, home truths are papered over in the name of unity, with notable victories along the way providing much needed and sustaining shots of political euphoria and more importantly, credibility. Look no further than the debacle being played out currently in the federal electorate of Warringah to see the meaning of dysfunction.

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The only candidate with a real chance of returning that seat to the Liberal fold from the independent Zali Steggall, who defeated former PM Tony Abbott, has walked away in the face of internal Liberal Party dysfunction.

Repeated delays in the Warringah preselection meant that standout candidate was staring down the barrel of endorsement a matter of a month before campaigning would start for a May election. That is two minutes to midnight in anyones language.

Liberal Party statesman Sir John Carrick was fond of saying you cant fatten the pig on market day. That was a quaint, old-fashioned but profound way of saying that successful campaigning is all about being on the field early, with a good candidate, and a well-resourced campaign.

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As it stands, more than a few candidates and aspiring candidates feel more like the pig is being hung out to dry than being fattened for market day.

Michael Yabsley was a minister in the Greiner government and federal treasurer of the Liberal Party. He is the author of Dark Money A plan to reform political fundraising and election funding in Australia.

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If Russia invades Ukraine this week, thus provoking the first full-scale war in Europe between two states since 1945, Britain will support the aggrieved party, as it should.

The full suite of instruments outlined on this site by Garvan Walshe should be deployed in response: thats to say, information, economic pressure, sanctions that target individuals, and military aid.

That help will stop short of the deployment of our troops in the Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin may nonetheless wage asymetric conflict against western countries, through cyber attacks, for example.

This is all that needs to be said about the short-term, at least for the moment, but the medium-term is a different matter.

For the crisis in Ukraine raises profound questions that the main political parties have been unwilling to answer about our foreign policy, our defence posture and the future of NATO itself.

Let me illustrate them by outlining two potential and different strategic approaches to Russia during the years ahead. Both would have the same starting-point: that its corrupt autocracy is necessarily antagonostic to liberal democracies.

With loyalist security forces, a subservient judiciary, a controlled media environment, and a legislature consisting of a ruling party and pliable opposition factions, [Putin] is able to manipulate elections and suppress genuine dissent.

Rampant corruption facilitates shifting links among bureaucrats and organized crime groups. Such is the verdict of Freedom House, amplified in British memories by the regimes Novichok attack on our own soil.

The first approach would be transatlantic in flavour at least for as long as America maintains its present stance on Russia and be marked by an idealistic projection of western values through military strength.

It would be consistent with the further enlargement of NATO, including membership for Ukraine, Georgia and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Which would necessitate member states other than the US, Britain, Greece and Poland meeting the NATO minimum spending requirement of two per cent of GDP on defence.

Such a policy would doubtless write off consequent Russian movement further towards Chinas sphere of influence as a development that will happen anyway.

In effect, we would be committing to treating an attack on Ukraine, say, as an attack upon us under the terms of Article Five of the NATO charter and it would be necessary to be upfront with voters about the consequences.

This posture would have big implications for our defence policy, suggesting armed forces less orientated to projecting power outside the European theatre.

The second approach would be more European in tone, not unlike that currently being followed by Germany and, more prominently, by France (or at least by Emmanuel Macron), and stress realism.

It would recognise that there is little likelihood of many NATO member states spending the required minimum, accept that there are limits to our own defence budget, and view the public as essentially unsupportive of distant wars.

It might well conclude that it is sensible to concentrate our military resources in eastern Europe to support allies to whom we are already committed.

However, it would be resistant to the enlargement of NATO, refusing membership to Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia & Herezegovina and almost anyone else who may apply for it.

It would toil to keep Russia within the western orbit as far as is possible, and seek to prevent it from lining up with China in a working alliance of non-democracies.

And while the first approach would be hard to reconcile with working with Russia as a partner on climate change, this second would see no such difficulty.

You will already have worked out that successive governments have all but led us to the position of committing to the first approach but with the means to deliver only the second.

Politically unengaged voters may not have been so quick off the mark. They are also likely to regard NATO, insofar as they have heard of it at all, as a pillar of UK defence policy and a fact of British political life.

However, the security and defence choices that this Government and its successors must make are bound up with the future of the alliance of which Britain has been a member for the best part of a century.

This is not the time to be debating the matter on the floor of the Commons, but I hope that our defence and diplomatic establishments and others are thinking about it very hard indeed.

NATO was the cornerpin of our security during the Cold War, having as it did a clear vocation to counter the Soviet Unions totalitarian aggression.

Since the collapse of communism, its membership has rolled into eastern Europe, and its influence well beyond. For example, Tajikistan is now a partner country.

When I last looked at an atlas, Tajinkstan was some distance from the north Atlantic. The relationship presumably, like that with Kazakhstan, the Kyrghyz Republic, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan makes sense in the Russian context.

This is what the Putin regime is seizing on in its complaints about encirclement. But hang on a minute. What has Colombias status as a NATO global partner got to do with Russia?

Answer: nothing much. NATO presumably has a foothold in the war on drugs. As it does in the Wests collective response to China, if Australia and Japans status as partners is anything to go by.

Furthermore, the NATO country with the second highest proportional GDP spend on defence is Greece in preparedness for potential hostilities with another NATO member, Turkey.

Its member states have otherwise mostly proved resistant to Putins overtures. And what one man might see as incoherence, in terms of the alliance taking military action, is another mans flexibility.

For NATO not only invoked Article Five after 9/11, but has sometimes taken action outside its terms for example, in Kosovo.

Perhaps the ambiguities of NATO are inevitable in an age of multiple threats to western democracies, a challenge recognised by the Governments Integrated Review.

But there seems to me to be a distinct possibility that, in relation to Russia, we may eventually find ourselves with obligations to allies for which the electorate is almost completely unprepared.

And if the language of the late 1930s is appropriate Ben Wallace has been complaining of a whiff of Munich in the air Minister will have to provide the means to meet the end.

By 1939, remember, 48 per cent of all Government spending under Neville Chamberlain was going on defence. Not that even the most aggressive upping of our present spend would require that much.

Nonetheless, we are in collective danger of drifting towards hostilities this week with habits, assumptions and reflexes that are out of date.

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Ukraine and Russia. We can't commit to pursuing liberal ends abroad without also providing the means. - ConservativeHome

Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts is celebrating its 30 Anniversary with an alumni reunion on March 12 from 1-3 p.m. The theme for the day will be Once an Eagle, Always an Eagle!

"This is the last school year that the school will be in the existing building, and we want to give alumni a chance to see the school one more time," officials said.

The event will be mostly outside on the front lawn, and will feature music from a crowdsourced playlist, food trucks, games and gatherings. Alumni students and faculty are encouraged to bring a picnic blanket or camping table to enjoy lunch on the lawn.

There will be tables with photos from each five years of the schools 30-year history. Alumni can connect with old CLSA friends, bringing memories, yearbooks and their own photos to share. Cornhole and parachute will be set up and ready to play.

There will also be an open house, with student ambassadors to give information about what is happening at CSLA now. A brief program will celebrate the past, legacy and future of CSLA. Alumni of Elbert Long Junior High are also welcome to join.

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The State Department has urged US citizens to leave Belarus immediately in a travel advisory update on Monday. "US citizens in Belarus should depart immediately via commercial or private means," the State Department said on Monday. The advisory warned the situation in Belarus was "unpredictable" due to an increase in unusual and concerning Russian military activity near the border with Ukraine," the advisory warned. Previously, the US government had merely advised its citizens to regularly reassess exit plans in case of emergencies. Travel to Belarus was already advised against - the highest risk category 4 still applies. Most recently, the State Department had ordered family members of US government employees to leave Ukraine's northern neighbour. Russia is massively increasing its troops in Belarus on the Ukrainian border. The State Department also revised its travel advice for Moldova - another country bordering Ukraine. Here, too, the department noted the "unusual and worrying Russian military activities around Ukraine". Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine are located between the Eastern European NATO states and Russia. For weeks, the US in particular has been warning that Russia could invade Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have gathered close to the Ukrainian border. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied allegations that it plans to invade. Australian Associated Press

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The State Department has urged US citizens to leave Belarus immediately in a travel advisory update on Monday.

"US citizens in Belarus should depart immediately via commercial or private means," the State Department said on Monday.

The advisory warned the situation in Belarus was "unpredictable" due to an increase in unusual and concerning Russian military activity near the border with Ukraine," the advisory warned.

Previously, the US government had merely advised its citizens to regularly reassess exit plans in case of emergencies.

Travel to Belarus was already advised against - the highest risk category 4 still applies.

Most recently, the State Department had ordered family members of US government employees to leave Ukraine's northern neighbour. Russia is massively increasing its troops in Belarus on the Ukrainian border.

The State Department also revised its travel advice for Moldova - another country bordering Ukraine.

Here, too, the department noted the "unusual and worrying Russian military activities around Ukraine".

Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine are located between the Eastern European NATO states and Russia. For weeks, the US in particular has been warning that Russia could invade Ukraine.

Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have gathered close to the Ukrainian border. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied allegations that it plans to invade.

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