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Hypocrisy? Schumer Delays on TikTok Bill Despite 2020 Tweet Calling for Exactly What the Bill Does
Although the House passed legislation Wednesday that would force the sale of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quickly signaled that the upper chamber may slow consideration of the bill. The legislation was approved by a rare bipartisan and unanimous vote March 7 in the House Energy and Commerce Committee…. -
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Doctor Accuses Media and Medical Industry of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation
From President Joe Biden to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to your local physician, those in authority repeated the mantra that COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective.” However, Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary critical care physician and the head of a team of medical professionals who develop prevention and… -
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Trump Will Have Strong Argument for Appeal After Fani Willis’ Latest Move
Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled Friday that county District Attorney Fani Willis could not go forward with her prosecution of former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants until she either recused herself and her office from the case or special prosecutor Nathan Wade was removed from the prosecution, giving the defendants… -
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Kellyanne Conway Tells GOP: Stop Saying Democrats Support Abortion Up Until Birth
GOP campaign consultant Kellyanne Conway urged Republicans to stop highlighting that their Democratic opponents support unfettered abortions of unborn babies, suggesting instead that Republicans focus on consensus. Conway laid out an abortion-related political strategy Wednesday during Politico’s Health Care Summit, at which she also touched on her support for both TikTok and in vitro fertilization…. -
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‘I SURVIVED’: Late-Term Abortion Survivor Busts Left’s Abortion Myths
A survivor of a late-term abortion, Melissa Ohden, shared her story in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I survived a failed saline-infusion abortion,” Ohden told senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan on Thursday, “about four years after [1973’s] Roe v. Wade.” “The intent of that toxic salt solution was to poison and scald me to death,” she… -
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Turns Out Biden Lied About Hur, Beau, and Why He Pilfered Classified Documents
One of the big takeaways from the newly released transcript of President Joe Biden’s two-day interview with Robert Hur is that the special counsel was being exceedingly generous when describing the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Much of the conversation with Hur is littered with barely incoherent answers and… -
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Haiti: Here We Go Again—The BorderLine
Haiti, a Maryland-sized country sharing half the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, won independence from France in 1804 and since then has been beset by political strife and poverty. Today, Haiti has descended into a Hobbesian state of nature, in which gang leaders like Jimmy Chérizier, aka “Barbecue,” will fight for control until… -
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Here’s What Biden’s Apology to the Illegal Who Allegedly Killed Laken Riley Reveals About Our Elites
The horrific murder of Laken Riley by repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Joe Biden referenced the deceased Riley. But Biden misidentified her as “Lincoln… -
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Biden Undermines Law by Invoking This to Create National Monuments
Since 2022, President Joe Biden has used the Antiquities Act to create five national monuments, collectively spanning more than 1.5 million acres of federal land. While these proclamations are ostensibly aimed at preserving areas of historic or archaeological importance, they often come at the expense of established laws and local economies. The American Forest Resource Council has… -
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Legislatures in These States Make Real Progress for Education Choice
In the midst of the school choice movement’s most successful legislative season last year, The Hill asked: “School choice won big in states this year. Is the movement about to hit a wall?” If it did hit a wall, as the news outlet suggested, the school choice movement burst right through that wall. Sure, the… -
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Reporter Leaves Out Key Facts in Hit Piece on Libs of TikTok
Vice News published a story last fall asserting that Libs of TikTok, the popular social media account run by Chaya Raichik, was responsible for a rise in school bomb threats. The reporter, Tess Owen, wrote that “bomb threats targeting schools or school districts following Libs of TikTok posts appears to be a particularly ominous escalation.”… -
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Unpacking the Gen Z LGBTQ Numbers
Almost 30% of Generation Z women identify as LGBTQ, according to a new Gallup survey. Could that possibly be true? Well, the Gallup survey, which also found that 22% of Gen Z overall identifies as LGBTQ, is no outlier. In recent years, data has clearly shown a rising number of Americans identify as LGBTQ, in… -
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NCAA Violated Title IX by Allowing Men to Compete in Women’s Athletics, Lawsuit Charges
A group of female athletes sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday over the organization allowing “transgender” athletes to compete against them and use locker rooms for women. The lawsuit, filed by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) on behalf of more than a dozen female athletes, alleges that the NCAA violated Title IX,… -
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Conservatives Win Triple-Header in One of America’s Bluest States
It has been 40 years since a Republican presidential candidate won Washington state. Today, Democrats enjoy a “trifecta” there, controlling the governorship and both chambers of the Washington State Legislature. But despite Democrats’ firm grip on state government, conservatives just scored their own “trifecta” victory in the deep-blue stronghold. The conservative grassroots organization Let’s… -
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2 Charts: Comparing Biden’s Federal Budget to Your Household Budget
President Joe Biden’s latest budget proposes the federal government spend trillions more than it will take in, increasing the already unsustainable federal debt by $17 trillion over the next 10 years. But these 13- and 14-figure dollar amounts have little meaning for ordinary Americans whose income, spending, and debt are typically in the five- and… -
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CDC Exaggerated Maternal Death Rates, Study Finds
A new study has found that maternal death rates in the United States have likely been strongly exaggerated due to misclassifications of maternal deaths. The study, published Wednesday in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, found that the United States’ maternal death rates have been inflated for the past two decades due to data-classification… -
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Kamala Harris Makes Celebratory Visit to Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic
Vice President Kamala Harris spent Thursday afternoon visiting a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota. The visit, which makes her the first vice president to do so, is intended to demonstrate President Joe Biden’s administration’s dedication to promoting abortion in the post-Roe v. Wade era. The visit is a historic first. While a celebratory visit… -
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Senate Republicans at Odds With Democrats on Banning This Digital Currency
If you’re a fan of the U.S. dollar, you can keep it from turning into a surveillance tool of the federal government—at least according to a new bill introduced in the Senate. A few days ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, along with four other senators, reintroduced the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. The bill would ban… -
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China’s Role in America’s Unrest
China knows that a weakened American society will mean an easier path for China to triumph on the international stage. In his explosive new book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” Peter Schweizer chronicles China’s surprising ties to the Ferguson protests and the 2020 riots. “Blood Money” also… -
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The Rise of Transgenderism
Over the past decade, the United States has seen a rise in power of the transgender movement. Once a fringe, left-wing movement premised on the idea that gender is a social construct and that it can be changed at a whim, it has now become mainstream. Today, the question “Can you provide a definition for…