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Running Scared: Biden’s Desperate Move to Get Tough on Crime
The political landscape of America has been fraught with tension and division, but one issue that has transcended party lines and united citizens across the nation is the growing concern over crime. The recent announcement by President Joe Biden that he will take a firm stance against crime has come as a small glimmer of… -
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6 Charts Show Crucial Facts About Spending, Taxes, Deficits Missing From Biden’s Budget
The Biden administration on Thursday released an outline for its fiscal year 2024 budget. As expected, it promotes the same swampy, big-government agenda as last year, which the country desperately needs to avoid. Beneath the administration’s spin, the ultimate message is that it thinks the federal government doesn’t have enough power and control over our… -
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‘Incredibly Irresponsible,’ Tech Expert Says of Whitmer’s TikTok Use After Michigan’s Ban
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is still using the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok despite a ban in her state for state-owned devices that went into effect on March 1. “It is banned for state devices,” Jayson Cavendish, Michigan’s acting chief security officer, said in an interview with the MLive media group. The ban applies to state-owned devices except… -
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Texas Abortion Ban Viewed as Virtually Untouchable. A Lawsuit Aiming to Change That Has Problems.
In an era of increasing litigation over state abortion bans since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one ban in Texas so far has avoided a post-Roe legal challenge. Texas’ Heartbeat Act, also known as SB 8, bans abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (at around six weeks’ gestation). The… -
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Newsom Punishes Walgreens for Refusing to Illegally Sell Abortion Drugs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced Wednesday that California is pulling back from renewing its multimillion-dollar contract with Walgreens over the company’s decision not to sell abortion drugs in jurisdictions where state attorneys general have said it would be illegal. After the Food and Drug Administration changed regulations to permit women to obtain abortion drugs without… -
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Districts in California, Kansas, DC Area Push Black Lives Matter at School’s Left-Wing Agenda
Observances of Black Lives Matter at School Week across the country included lessons on unconscious racial bias, globalism, and so-called microaggressions developed by far-left groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Howard Zinn Education Project. D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice this week approvingly cited numerous examples in Hayward, California; Lawrence, Kansas; and… -
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Hawley Proposes Stock Trading Ban for Senior Government Officials
The president, vice president, and other senior officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government would be barred from holding and trading stocks under a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Hawley’s proposed ban also would apply to the spouses of such senior officials. “Senior members of the executive branch—who have access to privileged information—shouldn’t… -
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Biden Wants to Increase DOJ Civil Rights Division Budget by $62 Million
President Joe Biden’s proposed 2024 budget calls for investing huge sums of money into the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—the same division disproportionately targeting pro-life activists with Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act charges as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The proposed budget increase is framed as reinvigorating federal civil… -
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Climate Policies Will Shut Down Farmers
Belgian and Dutch farmers are protesting because they are losing their livelihoods in the name of fighting so-called climate change as European governments seek to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, necessary inputs of modern agriculture. Will American farmers and consumers soon face the same fate? European farmers are being told that because of… -
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‘Peak Parody’ and ‘Beyond Deplorable’: Jewish CPAC Attendees Slam ADL’s Attack on Orthodox Jewish Speaker
Orthodox and other right-leaning Jews who attended the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, near Washington, D.C., last weekend criticized the Anti-Defamation League for its article attacking "anti-transgender hate" at the conference and for singling out an Orthodox Jew, Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, for criticism. Raichik also returned fire at ADL in… -
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Former Trump Adviser Launches PAC Calling on Ron DeSantis to Run for President
A senior adviser in former President Donald Trump's administration launched a political action committee Thursday calling on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to run for president in the 2024 election. Ken Cuccinelli served as the acting deputy secretary of homeland security in the Trump administration as well as Virginia attorney general and a Virginia… -
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‘The Transgender Movement Is Actually an Industry’ by Which Big Pharma Earns ‘Obscene Profits,’ Authors Warn
A new book exposes the “lie” of transgender identity, the damage it does to children and families, and the money trail propping it up, the authors say. “The transgender movement is actually an industry,” Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries and one of the book’s co-authors, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. Pharmaceutical… -
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FDA’s Procedure for Approving Abortion Pill Was Unlawful, Lawsuit Claims
Abortion rights advocates and the Biden administration are sounding the alarm after the filing of a Texas lawsuit that challenges the decades-old Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone, the first step of the FDA’s two-pill abortion process responsible for nearly 50% of all abortions in the U.S. In the first-of-its-kind lawsuit, four national medical… -
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Over 30,000 Petition in Defense of Former Police Officer’s Free Speech Rights
In a massive show of public support for former police officer Jacob Kersey, petitions containing over 30,000 signatures will be delivered Friday to the mayor and city council of Port Wentworth, Georgia, calling on city officials to apologize for infringing his First Amendment rights. Kersey, a 19-year-old police rookie, was pulled from duty and pressured… -
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6 Takeaways as House COVID-19 Panel Investigates Chinese Lab Leak
The House on Wednesday held its first hearing investigating the origins of COVID-19 after two federal agencies suggested the pandemic likely began when a new coronavirus escaped China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Energy Department recently assessed, albeit with “low confidence,” that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, while FBI Director Christopher Wray also… -
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America Is Less Safe Under Biden Administration
It’s clear that America is increasingly less secure under President Joe Biden based on the jaw-dropping testimony of senior U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials Wednesday during a hearing on “Worldwide Threats” before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Here are just a few frightening highlights—and an analysis—of the unclassified testimony from the director of… -
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Americans Aren’t Nearly Worried Enough About China, This Expert Says
China has an enormous influence on Americans today, punishing those who oppose the communist regime and rewarding those who support it, author and China expert Michael Pillsbury says on the latest episode of “The Kevin Roberts Show.” “This is the Chinese influence strategy toward the United States,” Pillsbury tells the show’s host, Heritage Foundation President… -
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The ‘Sainted Junior Senator From New York’ Turns 100
James L. Buckley turns 100 Thursday. America’s oldest living former senator and older brother of the late William F. Buckley Jr., Jim Buckley achieved the first third-party victory to the Senate in 40 years when he won in 1970 as the candidate of the Conservative Party in New York. A veteran of World War II,… -
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‘American Studios Shouldn’t Be Creating CCP Propaganda’: House Homeland Security Panel Chairman
A Republican congressman is once again working to counter how the Chinese Communist Party attempts to influence Hollywood and its filmmaking decisions. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., reintroduced the Stopping Communist Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act, or SCREEN Act, on Wednesday. “Since I introduced the SCREEN Act in [February 2022], the Communist Chinese Party escalated… -
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A Year After Russia Invaded Ukraine, What Does This War Teach Us?
After the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine—and what a horrible “anniversary” to mark—it would be irresponsible not to take stock of what this war has to say about America’s preparedness, resiliency, awareness, and willingness to defend the things we say are important. In the most basic sense, the war in Ukraine is…