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Department of Corrections Stonewalls on Whether It’s Incarcerating Male Rapist With Female Inmates
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is refusing to disclose whether it is housing biologically male prisoners with women, including a man who raped his own daughter. It remains unclear whether Mark Campbell, a biological man who now identifies as a transgender woman and goes by the name Nicole Campbell, has been transferred to a women’s… -
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College Lacrosse Coach Ousted From Position After Speaking Up Against Male Athletes Competing Against Women
Oberlin College’s head women’s lacrosse coach, Kim Russell, has been “reassigned” to a desk job after she spoke out against allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports, the Independent Women’s Forum reported. Russell shared a post on social media praising Emma Weyant as the “real winner” when Weyant placed second after transgender athlete Lia Thomas during… -
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Piercing Chuck Todd’s Political Bubble
Chuck Todd pulled out a farewell speech of sorts on his last day as “Meet the Press” host on NBC, proclaiming, for example, “I’ve had the honor of helping to explain America to Washington and Washington to America.” Does anyone really think an inside-the-Beltway creature like Todd is “explaining America to Washington”? Or that “Washington”… -
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‘Crisis of Runaway Prices Is Still Ongoing,’ Job Creators Network President Says of August Inflation Report
"Inflation accelerated significantly again last month, demonstrating the crisis of runaway prices is still ongoing," the president of the Job Creators Network says after a government agency reported that inflation rose last month. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, ticked up 0.6% in August…. -
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Organized Shoplifting Is $100B Problem. It Hurts Businesses Big and Small, Costing Jobs and Even Lives
Corporate America is finally waking up to the fact that woke policies on crime are costing them billions. Organized shoplifting efforts and flash mobs of robberies across the country caused businesses $100 billion in losses in 2021 and have only gotten worse since then, according to the National Retail Federation. As former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli… -
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CAUGHT RED-HANDED: Biden Cronies Scramble to Deny the Obvious in Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit
President Joe Biden and key officials in his administration are scrambling to deny the obvious truth that they pressured Big Tech to censor Americans. They have the gall to hide behind Big Tech companies and blame them for the censorship, as though the Biden administration didn't pressure them into clamping down on free speech in… -
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‘American People Are Sick of It’: House Freedom Caucus Vows to Oppose More Reckless Spending
Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday vowed to oppose another budget continuing resolution without changes, which they said would only promote more irresponsible spending. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a group comprising conservative Republicans, said the spending binge is driving up inflation. “We are not interested in a… -
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FEMA Money Should Go to Disaster-Stricken Americans, Not Illegal Aliens
Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how it funds an open borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White House now is trying to push through a $40 billion “supplemental” funding bill that holds bailout money… -
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X-RATED: At Hearing, Senator Reads Pornographic Excerpts From LGBT Books Targeted at Kids
Editor's note: This article includes quotes from books with graphic sexual descriptions. Sen. John Neely Kennedy read from pornographic books at a Senate hearing on Tuesday amid a heated exchange about school boards removing such books from libraries. Kennedy, R-La., read from two books—“All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Gender Queer: A Memoir”—both of which have… -
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How UAW’s Unrealistic Contract Demands Would Backfire on Union
Divorced from economic reality, the new leader of the United Auto Workers union has made exorbitant demands that, by roughly doubling the compensation of many workers, threaten the future of the Big Three U.S. automakers and their hundreds of thousands of employees. The UAW’s current contracts with the Big Three—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly… -
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UK’s Onshore Wind Scheme Could Backfire, With Far More Potent Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Shortly after naming Claire Coutinho as secretary of state for energy security and net zero on Aug. 31, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a plan to accelerate the approval process for onshore wind projects. Previously, a 2015 ruling allowed a single complaint within a community to halt an onshore wind program and fully stopped… -
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Now Biden Wants to Deny Your Consumer’s Choice in Water Heaters
President Joe Biden’s proposed energy efficiency standards for water heaters, released July 21 by the Energy Department, not only would raise the cost of water heaters for consumers but take certain products off the market. One popular tankless natural gas water heater, made by Rinnai in Griffin, Georgia, would have to be discontinued. The public has… -
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Setting the Record Straight on My Time as the Arizona ESA Director
Editor's note: This is in response to this article. The following statement is a response to the inaccurate article about my performance as the director of Arizona’s ESA program—an article for which I was never interviewed or contacted. I have been involved in the parental rights and school choice movement for almost ten years. I… -
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‘Logical Next Step’: McCarthy Announces Biden Impeachment Inquiry
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy authorized the House of Representatives to move forward on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden based on what Republicans have characterized as “Biden family influence-peddling.” “I’m directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday. “This is the logical next step… -
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Why Did Marxists Launch ‘Attack on America’s Kids’? Liz Wheeler Explains
The battleground that the radical Left has not conquered is “our children,” commentator and podcast host Liz Wheeler says, but make no mistake—the battle is raging. “The Left has actually been trying to reengineer our society for nearly a century, and unfortunately, they have been very successful at it,” says Wheeler, host of “The Liz… -
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Lack of Swift, Certain Punishment Fuels Crime Wave
“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.” — Xunzi, ancient Chinese philosopher Walking along a street in Madrid in the 1970s after a late-night supper, I asked a local resident if there was much crime in the city…. -
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DHS Awards Anti-Terror Grant for LGBTQ Group to Indoctrinate 6-Year-Olds
The Biden administration has awarded an anti-terrorism grant worth more than half-a-million dollars to an LGBTQ activist group, which distributes condoms and “sex education” material, to expand its “in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth” as young as age 6. The manifesto of its school-based group—which is based on the Black Panthers—calls for the “abolition” of the… -
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Sheriff Derides, Won’t Enforce New Mexico Governor’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Ban on Carrying Firearms
A sheriff said Monday that he won't enforce New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending open and concealed gun carry for 30 days in Bernalillo County and Albuquerque. Grisham, a Democrat, issued the order Friday through the New Mexico Department of Health after several shootings this year in the state, including one in which an 11-year-old boy… -
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More Americans Jobless Than Biden’s Official Unemployment Rate Shows
The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because the absence of millions of Americans from the workforce artificially lowers the unemployment rate. Accounting for the missing workers reveals an unemployment rate of over 6%, not the official 3.8%. To make sense of the numbers, we need to… -
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Mother and Grandfather Mourn Death of Family Lost to ‘Border Crisis’
Emilia quickly said goodbye to her mom, eager to go inside and see her grandmother, but Elisa Tambunga called her 7-year-old daughter back to give her a big hug and kiss, and to say, “I love you.” Those would be the last words the mother would ever speak to her daughter. It was March 13…