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Ohio House Votes to Override Governor’s Veto of Bill Protecting Kids From Transgender Surgeries, Hormones
The Ohio House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would protect children from irreversible transgender sex-change procedures and medical interventions, such as puberty blockers and hormones. The state’s House of Representatives met Wednesday afternoon to vote 65-28 to override the governor’s veto. It now heads to… -
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A Nation Dr. King Wouldn’t Recognize
This year, 2024, marks the 60th anniversary of the signing into law of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. Soon we observe the national day set aside to note and honor the leader of the movement that led to that act becoming law: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We must ask how, after… -
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Instagram Censors Conservative Organization After Hunter Biden Post
Instagram deleted the America First Policy Institute’s account Wednesday morning without any explanation. Brooke Rollins, founder and CEO of the organization, announced on X that the account, a1policy, was banned at 8:49 a.m. The organization appealed at 9:10 a.m. only to receive another message from Instagram at 9:16 a.m. disabling the account. After publication of… -
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Could Allegations About Fani Willis’ ‘Improper’ Romantic Relationship Sink Her Racketeering Case Against Trump?
Allegations about District Attorney Fani Willis’ “improper” relationship with the special prosecutor could have serious ramifications for her racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The attorney for a Trump co-defendant filed a motion Monday alleging Willis not only hired the man she was romantically involved with, Nathan Wade, as special… -
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Why Did Mike DeWine Rush to Ban Transgender Surgeries for Minors 1 Week After Vetoing Similar Bill? This Doctor Thinks He Knows
On Friday, Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, issued an “emergency” executive order to ban sex-reassignment surgeries for minors just one week after he vetoed a bill that would have banned those same surgeries and addressed related issues. The General Assembly is expected to begin the process of overriding his veto Wednesday. Why did DeWine sign… -
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Biden Admin Reverses Decision to Tear Down William Penn Statue. It Shows How the War on History Can Be Won.
The Biden administration has backed off and decided not to demolish a statue of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. In case you haven’t been following the latest in the war on history, the National Park Service announced over the weekend that it would be removing the famous Quaker’s statue from in front of his… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Adds LGBTQ Strings to Foreign Agriculture Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cultivate the transgender ideology on a global scale using international farm-aid programs. That could mean attaching strings to international grants that the USDA doles out to support the Biden administration’s LGBTQ agenda, which President Joe Biden ordered in a presidential memorandum. The USDA’s Sub-Working Group for the Memorandum… -
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Was It Legal to Appoint Jack Smith in the First Place?
Was special counsel Jack Smith illegally appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and is his prosecution of former President Donald Trump unlawful? That is the intriguing issue raised in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by Schaerr Jaffe LLP on behalf of former Attorney General Ed Meese and two law professors, Steven Calabresi and Gary… -
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Mayorkas Says Over 85% of Illegal Aliens Are Released Into US Interior
More than 85% of the illegal aliens encountered at the border are released into the interior of the U.S., according to reports. Following a private meeting between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday, sources in the room told Fox News’ Bill Melugin that “Mayorkas admitted that… -
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As Debt Skyrockets, House Eyes New Budget Deal With Negligible Cuts
In May 2023, when then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy negotiated a debt limit deal that included spending limits, the gross national debt stood at just under $31.5 trillion. Conservatives in the House were deeply upset about the debt deal, which contained fraudulent gimmicks to get around the announced spending limits. Less than eight months… -
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Court Appears to Take Dim View of Trump’s Immunity Claim
Former President Donald Trump’s claim to presidential immunity from prosecution came under intense questioning Tuesday by a three-judge federal panel. Surrounded by high amounts of security and media due to the former president’s attendance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Tuesday to consider Trump’s appeal of U.S. District Court Judge… -
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Heritage Action Calls for Lawmakers to Oppose Spending Deal
The budget deal reached this past weekend between Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress fails to include real spending cuts or to secure the border, warns Ryan Walker, the executive vice president of Heritage Action for America. “The American people are begging Congress to secure the border and rein in the unprecedented government spending and… -
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Appeals Court Hits ‘Off’ Switch on Biden’s Dishwasher, Washing Machine Regulations
A federal appeals court on Monday shot down the Biden administration’s efforts to repeal existing regulations on dishwashers and clothes washers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a legal battle between 11 red states and the federal government over the Department of Energy’s efforts to impose energy- and water-efficiency standards… -
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Iran at Center of Middle East Conflict, but Biden Won’t Take Strategic Action, Expert Says
Hamas and Israel have been at war for three months. The Houthis are firing rockets at ships in the Red Sea. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israel. And internal violence is growing in Iran between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. As tension builds in the Middle East, the most common thread in the conflict is Iran,… -
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The Bizarre Case of a Missing Defense Secretary
These days, it’s not controversial to point out that on the Biden administration’s watch, the world has become far less stable and far more dangerous. The sudden and haphazard U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 surely emboldened our adversaries, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months later. And Russia, despite failing to take Ukraine… -
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Carjackings in DC Doubled to a Staggering 959 in 2023
Our nation’s capital is a model of dysfunctional, clueless blue city governance. Nothing highlights that better than the explosion of crime—and especially carjackings—since 2020. The official 2023 year-end tally of carjackings in Washington, D.C., ended up being a staggering 959, twice the number of the previous year. There were 152 carjackings in 2019. That number… -
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A Real Woman Explains Why Ohio’s Governor Was Wrong to Veto Bill to Curb Transgenderism
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Friday issued an executive order prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors in his state and issued draft administrative rules on so-called gender-affirming care for minors and adults. DeWine’s directives came a week after his Dec. 29 veto of House Bill 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which would… -
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Trump Files Flurry of Motions Seeking to Dismiss Georgia Election Charges
Former President Donald Trump filed three motions Monday to dismiss his Georgia 2020 election case, including one claiming presidential immunity prevents his prosecution. The motions argue for dismissal based on due process grounds, double jeopardy and presidential immunity. The claims in Trump’s presidential immunity filing mirror those made in his bid to dismiss the federal indictment brought by special… -
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BOMBSHELL: 200 Undercover FBI Assets at US Capitol on Jan. 6, Congressman Estimates
A member of Congress investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol estimates the FBI had 200 undercover assets both inside and outside the building. “We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of… -
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Author Calls for Return to Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass’ Vision of Colorblindness
Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined. “When I say colorblind, it’s not naive at all,” says Archie, an author and professor at Colorado State University. “It speaks to a tradition that we find with…