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TWITTER FILES EXPOSED: Twitter Operatives Targeted These Major Names for Shadow Banning
Journalist Bari Weiss revealed in another major Twitter Files update Thursday that Twitter operatives were suppressing the accounts of major conservatives like “Libs of TikTok,” Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk. Yet Twitter denied that it was suppressing or shadow banning accounts: in 2018, Head of Legal Policy and Trust Vijaya Gadde and Head of Product… -
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First Amendment’s Future Hinges on This Supreme Court Case
Saying anything you like—or refraining from saying whatever you want—is one of the most fundamental rights in a free nation. Without it, the First Amendment is worthless. The Supreme Court just heard arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the case of Lorie Smith, a Colorado graphic designer who refuses to create websites with messages… -
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House Freedom Caucus Members Lay Out ‘Bold Agenda’ for GOP Speaker
Several Republican House Freedom Caucus members released a letter Thursday identifying key rule and policy changes they would like to see the speaker of the House adopt as the 118th Congress is formed, saying there must be a “check” on the “swamp” and reform of the “status quo.” The caucus called for bills that are… -
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Doctors Sue FDA, Saying Agency Illegally Approved Chemical Abortion Drugs
A group of medical doctors and organizations argues that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration illegally approved chemical abortion drugs, and has filed a lawsuit to remove such pills form the market. “We believe that women should be empowered with accurate information, and what we’ve seen in this chemical abortion push is deception from square… -
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Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected president (1884) to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later in 1892. Yet Trump seems determined instead… -
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Arizona GOP Seeks Investigation of Katie Hobbs for Pushing Twitter Censorship
Two days after the Arizona Republican Party requested an investigation, the state’s GOP attorney general isn’t saying whether his office will look into specific actions of Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, a Democrat. Hobbs, Arizona’s outgoing secretary of state, flagged certain tweets last year in her official capacity that Twitter then removed. Her interaction with Twitter was… -
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Key Provision of Constitution in Play as Supreme Court Hears Election Case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Moore v. Harper, a case that turns on the meaning of a key provision in the Constitution outlining the Framers’ structure for congressional elections. It is a complex case and although it’s difficult to predict how the high court will rule, the justices sharply questioned lawyer David… -
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‘Jeopardizes the Basic Religious Liberties’: 7 House Republicans Who Changed Their Minds on Respect for Marriage Act
The Respect for Marriage Act will likely soon be signed into law by President Joe Biden after the House of Representatives gave its final approval on Thursday. The bill passed 258-169, with every Democrat voting in its favor as well as 39 Republicans. One hundred and sixty-nine Republicans voted against the bill with one voting… -
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Black Homicide Rates Are Back at ’90s Levels. The Problem Isn’t the Guns.
The Left loves to talk about “disparate impact”—until it interferes with its narratives. A recently released study found that homicide rates for black men have shot back up to the extremely high levels of the early 1990s. If black lives truly matter, stemming the sudden explosion in violent crime where black men are primarily the… -
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Texas City May Bar Christians From Sponsoring Christmas Parades, Conservative Group Warns
A small Texas city near Austin is about to vote on a policy that may prevent Christian groups from sponsoring Christmas parades, according to the conservative group Texas Values. The policy, listed as Agenda Item #13 on the agenda for the Dec. 8, 2022, meeting of the city council in Taylor, Texas, stipulates what kind… -
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PBS Gushes Through ‘Democrat Week in Review’
At 3:39 p.m. on Dec. 2, Elon Musk announced he’d release internal documents exposing how Twitter went about heavily suppressing The New York Post and its mid-October 2020 scoops from Hunter Biden’s laptop. Journalist Matt Taibbi began tweeting out documents three hours later, and not surprisingly, there was no time for it on the evening… -
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Same-Sex Marriage Bill Is an ‘Absolute Abomination’ for Religious Liberty, Chip Roy Says
The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act, 258-169, on Thursday and it now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk. The measure, which seeks to codify the legalization of same-sex marriage into federal law, has come under attack from Republican lawmakers who see it as a threat to religious liberty. “It’s an absolute… -
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Pharmaceutical Trials: When Left’s Obsession With Race Kills
One of the last things Francis Collins, then-director of the National Institutes of Health, did before retiring was to pressure Moderna into delaying the release of its COVID-19 vaccine because he wanted more minorities in its clinical trials. Moderna’s CEO, Stephane Bancel, was happy to oblige him, saying that diversity “matters more to us than… -
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Biden’s Student Loan Bribe in Midterms: Unconstitutional but Successful
As the dust settles on the midterm elections, and the Republican Party emerges victorious in its bid for control of the House of Representatives, we can take a moment to reflect on the reasons behind the outcome. But, as we move forward, we must not forget the underhanded tactics employed by the Biden administration in… -
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‘Mike Gallagher Is Exceptionally Qualified’: McCarthy Reveals Select Committee on China Chairman
A Republican lawmaker has been tasked with chairing the Select Committee on China in the new Congress. “The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geopolitical threat of our lifetime. We need a whole-of-government approach that will build on the efforts of the Republican-led China Task Force and ensure America is prepared to tackle the economic… -
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Republicans Shouldn’t Fall for Lame-Duck Session Fool-Me-Twice Immigration Bill
If Sam Bankman-Fried offers a new cryptocurrency investment scheme, are you in? Not likely. I’d rather trust the ghost of Bernie Madoff with my money. Once bitten, twice shy. That’s why conservatives don’t trust the immigration “compromise” proposals being discussed on Capitol Hill in the lame-duck session of Congress just weeks before control of the… -
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Biden Apparently Prioritizes ‘Ice Cream’ Over Border, Rep. Dan Crenshaw Says as GOP Unveils Border Security Plan
Texas House Republicans presented their plan to secure America’s southern border, and one of them attacked President Joe Biden for misplaced priorities on the issue. Texas Congressmen, led by Jodey Arrington and Chip Roy, unveiled a border security agenda for the new Congress, which begins January 3, during a press conference Thursday morning. “We… -
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‘Respect for Marriage Act’: You Will Be Made to Celebrate
In March 2013, nearly a decade ago, in this space, I made a prediction. “Within the next few months,” I wrote, “Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely rule that same-sex marriage is mandated by the Constitution of the United States … states will be forced to recognize same-sex marriages; same-sex marriage will enter the public-school lexicon;… -
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Bloomberg Could Benefit From Climate Rules He Helped Craft
Billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg, the former New York mayor and presidential candidate, is poised to benefit financially from proposed rules requiring climate disclosures for businesses that he had a hand in crafting, policy analysts say. President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commission proposes that publicly traded companies disclose to investors what the commission describes as… -
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Rachel Levine Enlists Doctors as Evangelists to Preach the Gospel of Transgenderism
Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, tried to enlist children’s doctors and nurses into the transgender activist movement, urging them to become evangelists and preach the gospel of transgenderism. Anything less would be a betrayal of their profession and science itself, he argued. Levine, assistant secretary of health at the U.S….