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Jonathan Glazer’s Evil Oscars Display
Sunday night at the Oscars, a director named Jonathan Glazer made international headlines. Glazer won an Academy Award for his film “Zone of Interest,” which centers on the family life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife, Hedwig, who happily cultivate their home and garden as just behind the wall, Jews are tortured, shot,… -
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TikTok Bill Passes in House With Bipartisan Support
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act on March 5. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the… -
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Congress to Decide TikTok’s Fate in US
TikTok might soon be facing a choice: Divest from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company, or cease to operate in the U.S. “This is not about the content that is being posted on TikTok,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says. “It’s about the conduct of the company that controls TikTok, that makes the decisions, that has… -
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Families Health Services Act Is a Taxpayer-Funded Attack on Families and Life
A sweeping Senate bill would radically expand in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies for military service members without regard to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, promoting the creation of children outside of marriage, including between two men and their hired surrogates. Democrats pushed for a unanimous consent agreement Tuesday, meaning, if… -
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Tuberville Calls for Coaches to Defend Girls’ Sports: ‘Stand Up for Your Athletes or Get Out’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is calling on coaches, administrators, and athletic directors to stand up for their female athletes forced to compete against men identifying as women. “Coaches and administrators, stand up for your athletes—or get out of the profession,” the Alabama Republican, a former collegiate football coach, said during a roundtable discussion with advocates for… -
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Supermajorities Oppose ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors, Against Biological Males Playing Female Sports, Poll Finds
A new poll finds that by a margin of nearly 3 to 1, respondents don’t think that it should be legal to provide minors with puberty blockers, drugs, and/or surgery to transition from one sex to the other. And by an even bigger margin, better than 7 to 1, respondents said that biological males who… -
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8 Takeaways From Special Counsel’s Testimony on Biden Docs, Memory
Special counsel Robert Hur took fire Tuesday from both Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee while testifying about his report on President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his eight years as vice president and 36 years in the Senate. Hur released his final report last month, concluding that Biden “willfully retained… -
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Financial Crimes Agency Suggests Banks Close Accounts of Conservative ‘Hate Groups’
Is it a “financial crime” to allow a conservative Christian to open a bank account? The very idea sounds absurd, but in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, the federal agency tasked with protecting the financial system from illicit use endorsed a list of “hate groups” that includes mainstream conservative Christian organizations like Alliance Defending… -
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GOP Lawmaker Says Jan. 6 Report ‘Is Just the Beginning’
The chairman of a House Administration subcommittee on oversight says an “Initial Findings Report” on the Capitol riot over three years ago, released Monday, “is just the beginning.” Since early 2023, Rep. Barry Loudermilk‘s subcommittee “has been investigating the failures at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, which House Democrats failed to do… -
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6 Takeaways From Biden’s Testimony on Classified Documents
Special counsel Robert Hur released a report last month recommending against charging President Joe Biden for the mishandling of classified documents from his years as vice president and senator, in part because a jury would find Biden sympathetic as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and because his “diminished faculties” make it less likely… -
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Justice Alito Extends Pause on Texas Law Empowering Police to Arrest Illegal Immigrants
Justice Samuel Alito extended a temporary freeze on a decision that would have allowed Texas’ law enabling local police to arrest illegal migrants to take effect. The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court earlier this month to prevent the law, SB 4, from taking effect, claiming it would “create chaos in the United States’ efforts… -
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Legal Challenges Follow SEC Adoption of Costly, Burdensome Climate Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted a final rule to require public companies to disclose climate-related information in financial statements and other reports provided to the commission. The adopting release is 886 pages long and contains 3,241 footnotes. This rule will not do anything to protect investors. It will not do anything material… -
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Gun Control Activists Admit They Overreacted to This Concealed Carry Case
Gun control advocates have spent the past two years losing their minds over the Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case that affirmed citizens’ right to publicly carry a firearm for self-defense. One of the commonly repeated criticisms of Bruen has been that the high court’s ruling… -
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Biden Gave ‘Not Credible’ Response in Classified Documents Probe, Hur Testifies
President Joe Biden provided information deemed “not credible” to federal prosecutors during an investigation that determined he knowingly retained and shared classified documents, special counsel Robert Hur told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Hur released his report in February, concluding that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” after his vice presidency ended in… -
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Call Them What They Are: Illegal Aliens
According to the embargoed version of Thursday’s State of the Union address, which journalists previewed, President Joe Biden planned to remain silent about the late Laken Riley, the 22-year old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on Feb. 22, reportedly by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26. He broke into America in… -
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Treasury Department Sent ‘Hate Group’ List of Conservative Organizations to Banks
It came to light last week that the Treasury Department provided a listing of “hate groups,” which lumped together mainstream conservative organizations alongside avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, to major U.S. banks for the purpose of monitoring financial transactions in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Experts say the pattern could… -
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Ireland Rejects Leftist Constitutional Amendments Targeting Family, Motherhood
Ireland has rejected leftist, anti-family proposals in a double referendum on amendments to the country’s Constitution. Irish voters on Saturday overwhelmingly opposed two proposed constitutional amendments that would have legally redefined marriage and motherhood. Over 1.5 million voters on the Emerald Isle showed up at the polls. The proposed Family Amendment would have changed the Irish Constitution’s definition of… -
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Government Gets Fatter as Americans Rack Up Record Credit Card Debt
While the White House lectures on the strength of the economy, Americans are drowning in credit card debt, which hit a record-high $1.13 trillion by the end of last year. Of course, Americans are sour on the economy: They’re having to put necessities on credit cards that charge $240 billion in interest annually. How we got here… -
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Todd Starnes Explains ‘Residual After-Effects of the Barack Obama Presidency’
In 2007, Todd Starnes was working at Fox News and covering then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “I just felt like that was going to be the historic campaign, and it turned out to be,” says Starnes, a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host. The political climate facing America right now is in part due to… -
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Did Biden Just Hand Hamas a Big Gift in Its War Against Israel?
President Joe Biden on Saturday warned Israel against invading Hamas’ remaining stronghold in Gaza, but experts say this would only ensure the terrorist group’s survival and recovery. Biden told MSNBC during an interview that Israel would be crossing a “red line” if its counteroffensive extends into Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza bordering Egypt and a refuge…