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    EXCLUSIVE: Airport Billboards Blame Democrats for Long TSA Lines

    Mobile billboards are being deployed Tuesday morning at the three Washington, D.C.-area airports amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has led to long security lines at airports across the nation. “You’re waiting in line because millions skipped it. Tell Chuck Schumer: Fund DHS,” the billboard reads, referring to the millions of illegal aliens…
    Virginia Allen
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    2 Democrats Side With Republicans to Confirm Mullin for DHS Secretary

    The Senate has voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin, the senator from Oklahoma, as the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The upper chamber voted to confirm Mullin 54 to 45 on Monday evening. Two Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined 52 Republicans by voting in favor of President Donald…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Gas Taxes Are Rising Nationally—and Nowhere More Than California 

    Across the nation, states are raising their gas taxes. Leading the way, California now has a 70.9-cent per-gallon state excise tax.  The Tax Foundation says the “gas tax is meant to function as a user fee, charging drivers to fund the construction and maintenance of the roads they use.”   States apply tax gas in a variety of ways; most add tax at…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Trump Tells Senators to Pass the SAVE America Act ‘for Jesus’ 

    With Congress’ spring break scheduled to start this week, President Donald Trump is demanding that the Senate stay in Washington, D.C., to pass the SAVE America Act and fund the Department of Homeland Security “for Jesus.” Rather than tackle DHS funding and the SAVE America Act separately, Trump is now pushing the Senate to bundle the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Ohio Military Service Members Return Home After Paying Ultimate Sacrifice in Epic Fury

    Operation Epic Fury has hit home for the Buckeye State. Last Wednesday, three members of the U.S. military from Ohio returned home after paying the ultimate sacrifice. President Donald Trump was in attendance for the dignified transfer as America remembers and honors these fallen soldiers. Ohio natives Cpt. Seth Koval, Cpt. Curtis Angst, and Tech….
    Rebecca Downs
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    A Shrinking Fleet and Slower Shipyards are Forcing Unsustainable Deployments for the US Navy

    Since the end of the Cold War, for 30 years, the U.S. Navy has sustained a third of its fleet deployed on the backs of sailors and sometimes taking shortcuts at the shipyard—this approach is breaking down, according to the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office. But with what is being called a…
    Brent Sadler
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    Fraud Scandal Deepens: Key Defendant Who Met Top Minnesota Official Pleads Guilty

    Another five individuals pleaded guilty in a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota, including one who met with the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison.  Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, 42, was a consultant for Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit at the center of a federal fraud investigation. Mohamed was identified by the Justice Department as a leader in…
    Fred Lucas
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    GOP Rep Challenges Muslim Leaders to Condemn Islamic Terror

    A Congressional Republican told The Daily Signal that he is concerned about the “silence” from Muslim leaders in condemning the wave of recent terror attacks carried out by alleged Islamic terrorist who “cited a religious justification for their violence.” “If a Christian justified violence by citing the Bible, every church in America would and SHOULD…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Trump’s Mueller Comments and What Andrew Breitbart Told Me When Ted Kennedy Died

    There was plenty of outrage yesterday after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social and posted the following reaction to the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” Predictably, the response was swift and condemning. Critics called the statement…
    Jon Fleischman
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    Phyllis Schlafly, a Hero for Today’s Women 

    This is an adapted excerpt from Emma Waters’ new book “Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today’s Women of Faith,” out March 24 from Regnery Faith.  In the autumn of 1973, the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield became an unlikely battlefield. As legislators prepared to vote on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment…
    Emma Waters
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    Blue States—and a Few Red States—Taxing the Trump Accounts

    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has staked out an anti-Donald Trump resistance position on nearly every issue, but backs changing his state’s tax law for children’s accounts bearing the president’s name.  “Minnesota does not adopt federal tax law changes automatically. The state Legislature must pass a tax conformity bill in order to adopt federal tax law…
    Fred Lucas
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    Justices Skeptical of Counting Late-Arriving Ballots

    The Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday seemed particularly skeptical of arguments by the state of Mississippi that mail-in ballots arriving after Election Day should still be counted. Mississippi counts ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day. At least 17 states and the District of Columbia count ballots that arrive late, with…
    Fred Lucas
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    How the Human Rights Campaign Makes You Complicit in Child Victimization

    Thanks to the Human Rights Campaign, even conservatives may be helping fund child-mutilating hormones and surgery, mother-and-father loss, and the destruction of embryonic life—not through elections or legislation, but through burrito bowls, chocolate bars, and bronzer. That is the scandal exposed by a new report from Them Before Us, “Harming Rights of Children: How the…
    Katy Faust
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    Trump Has a New Plan to Solve Homeland Security, Voter ID Disputes

    President Donald Trump is demanding that any deal with Democrats to fund the Department of Homeland Security include an agreement on requiring photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections. The demand merges two battles that Congress has failed to resolve. “I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying,…
    George Caldwell
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    Battered Christopher Columbus Statue Blessed With New Home From Trump

    The White House installed a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus early Sunday, constructed from the remains of a monument that was destroyed in a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. The new statue is located outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. The original statue was located in Columbus Piazza in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Obamacare at 16: An Unhappy Birthday

    March 23, 2010. Sixteen years ago, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, thus locking into statutory concrete the dysfunctional status quo that burdens us today. Recall this was Obama’s “signature” legislative achievement. Of course, Obama’s congressional allies knew exactly what they were doing. They conscientiously read and fully grasped the 2,700-page…
    Robert Moffit
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    Tom Homan Knows Why Democrats Want to Keep DHS Shut Down

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House border czar Tom Homan told CNN on Sunday he thinks Democrats’ apparent decision to prolong the partial government shutdown is not due to differences in immigration policy but instead “execution.” Homan appeared on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash” on the 37th day of the Department…
    Anthony Iafrate
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    ‘I Made a Promise to God’: Christian Nonprofit Supports TSA Agents During Shutdown

    When Tonja Myles was struggling with addiction and childhood trauma, she promised to dedicate her life to serving God when she recovered. Now, she and her husband are providing food, toiletries, and financial assistance to Transportation Security Administration agents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who are working without pay during a partial government shutdown. “We’re encouraging…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Assist TSA at Airports

    March 22 (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s border czar said on Sunday that having immigration agents bolster short-staffed Transportation Security Administration teams will speed up airport lines, but the union for TSA workers said that doesn’t solve what they see as the underlying problem of pay.  In appearances on Sunday news shows, border czar Tom…
    Reuters
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    Madness on the Hill: Lawmakers Share March Madness Brackets

    As if Capitol Hill needed any more madness, the NCAA backetball tournament is upon us. While lawmakers consider the SAVE America Act, seek an end to the Department of Homeland Security shut down, and consider more war funding, they’re keeping one eye on March Madness. Possibly the most notable win so far in the tournament was…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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