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Biden DOJ Targets Utah Prisons After Trans Prisoner Removes His Own Testicles
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit accusing the state of Utah, and its Department of Corrections, of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in failing to give a man hormones for his gender dysphoria. The prisoner, who identifies as a transgender woman, is said to have requested to… -
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Biden Admin Punts on Radical Title IX Sports Rule Change for Now, but Nebraska Has Chance to Act
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—a law guaranteeing equality between the sexes in education—has been on the chopping block from Day One of the Biden administration. But after a lengthy delay, the federal Department of Education has formally announced it will punt on the announcement of its new Title IX sports rule, one… -
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Fact-Checking Wind and Solar Claims: Climate Expert Makes Case for ‘Realism’
Wind, solar, and electric vehicles aren’t the clean energy accomplishments that many claim, climatologist David Legates says. “The lithium … all of the rare earth minerals that are necessary for the batteries, that are necessary for the solar panels, that are necessary for the wind turbines … are called rare earths,” Legates explains on “The… -
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NYC: Sucker Punch City
“How many more police officers and how many families need to make the ultimate sacrifice before we start protecting them?” Stephanie Diller asked in a moving eulogy to her slain NYPD officer husband. This past weekend a funeral was held for Officer Jonathan Diller, who was fatally shot during a traffic stop in Far Rockaway,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Movie Would Share ‘Gut-Wrenching Story’ of Man Who Tried to Become a Trans Woman
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Cross-dressed by his grandmother as a child, abused by his uncle, confused and hurting, Walt Heyer sought to become a woman. As a young man, he underwent attempted gender-reassignment surgery, lived as a trans-identifying woman for eight years, and ultimately detransitioned. Heyer, now 83, has spent the past few decades offering… -
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National Council of Teachers of English Hosts Seminar on How to Teach ‘Gender Queer’
The National Council of Teachers of English, a professional development organization, hosted remote training to instruct K-12 teachers on how to teach the controversial book “Gender Queer” in their “classrooms, libraries, and communities.” The NCTE, which boasts 25,000 members around the United States, hosted a panel including “Gender Queer” author Maia Kobabe and an “LGBTQIA+… -
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Earth to Planet Fitness: Women Don’t Want to Share Locker Rooms With Faux Females
What planet are these people living on, anyway? The Planet Fitness gym chain has been in the news of late after a self-described “queer” man who says he identifies as a woman was allowed to use the women’s locker room at a Planet Fitness in Fairbanks, Alaska. When Patricia Silva, an actual XX-chromosome female member of the… -
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Taxpayer Protection: Idaho Law Blocks Funding for ‘Gender-Transition’ Procedures
An Idaho law enacted Wednesday (H. 668) protects taxpayers from paying for “gender transition” procedures in a variety of ways. The legislation “adds to existing law,” namely the Vulnerable Child Protection (VCAP) Act passed in 2023, which prevented physicians from harming minors with gender-transition surgeries or hormones. The Legislature declared in H. 668 that “public funds shall not be… -
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Debunking the Supposed ‘Historical’ Christian View That Abortion Is OK
I’m not going to take “theological advice” from a pro-abortion Christian, and neither should you. Bradley Onishi, who describes himself as a former evangelical minister, wrote an opinion piece for Politico titled, “Why Christians—and Republicans—Should Reconsider the Premise that ‘Life Begins at Conception.’” In the article, the writer argues that protecting the unborn is “not settled Christian… -
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Some in California Want to Legalize Racial Discrimination—Yet Again
California Democrats’ incorrigible obsession with racial preferences is the definition of insanity: They keep trying and failing to legalize racial preferences, and yet, they expect a different outcome each time. When will they learn from their failures? Not any time soon. Their futile cycle has restarted with another effort to legalize racial preferences. The California… -
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Judge Hands DeSantis Legal Win in Lawsuit Over Flying Illegal Aliens to Martha’s Vineyard
A federal judge dismissed claims against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis brought by attorneys representing illegal aliens that the Republican governor had flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2022. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled Friday that illegal immigrants could sue the charter flight company Vertol Systems, which contracted with Florida to transport them in September 2022. But Burroughs dismissed other claims… -
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DC Archbishop: Joe Biden Is a ‘Cafeteria Catholic’
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., said in an interview over the weekend that President Joe Biden is a “cafeteria Catholic” who “picks and chooses” which parts of Catholicism he will adhere to. Gregory appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday with the female Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, where… -
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REVOLTING: Crybaby Journos Give NBC Brass the Bird
Ronna Romney McDaniel was with MSNBC for just four days. Sharing airwaves with the former Republican National Committee chairwoman was more than her colleagues could bear. They curled their lips, as if she had the cooties. “It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on ‘Morning Joe’ in her capacity as a paid contributor,”… -
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Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies
‘Occupied Gaza’ Prior to Oct. 7, there were roughly 2 million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in the Gaza Strip. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas canceled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of… -
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Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Transgender Easter Fiasco
Joe Biden, the “devout” Catholic who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, issued a proclamation on Good Friday, the day Christians remember Jesus’ death on the cross before his Resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. Biden chose Good Friday to publicly announce that he would designate the following Sunday as an important day in American… -
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An Addict’s Shot at Redemption on the Trump Campaign
Tim Murtaugh became a familiar face to many Americans as President Donald Trump’s communications director for his 2020 reelection campaign. As one of Trump’s most visible spokesmen, Murtaugh had a front-row seat to the most-watched campaign in history. But just a mere four years earlier, Murtaugh found himself in a much different spot. After struggling… -
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How CDC Handled Congress’ Probe of China-Tied Lab in California
Newly released records offer a glimpse of how federal public health officials reacted when questioned by Congress about an illegal, China-tied biolab in California. That lab contained labeled samples of the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. The records cover last June, July, and August and include a message… -
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Why Nonprofits Serving Poor, Homeless Should Stop Taking Government Money
After spending years serving the needs of the poor and homeless through nonprofit ministry, James Whitford says he learned that “it’s good for nonprofits … to stay away from government funding.” Whitford, the co-founder and CEO of True Charity, a national initiative to reform charity work, started serving the poor through a ministry called Watered… -
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Biden’s Big Bet on Military Abortions Falls Flat
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, President Joe Biden has made it a top priority to use any and all administrative actions to promote and pay for abortions with taxpayer money. No single related action garnered more attention than Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s announcement that the Defense Department would use taxpayer… -
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The Way to Cuba’s Heart Is Through the Internet
Cuba’s repressive communist dictatorship relies on more than brute force to oppress its people. The Castros and their successors keep Cubans in line by controlling what information they can receive and transmit. That’s why, when demonstrations against shortages of food and other necessities began on March 17, the regime cut the state-provided internet to stop the…