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Why This Solar Company CEO Wants to Drill, Build Pipelines, and ‘Deploy All Types of Energy’
Drew Bond, co-founder and president of C3 Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. Having founded several companies in the energy industry, he now leads an organization that helps conservatives counter the Left’s radical environmental ideas. “I would argue that many conservatives are, in fact, better environmentalists than many in the environmental community,” Bond tells The Daily… -
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Transgender ‘Treatments’ for Kids Are Hiding in Plain Sight on the Ballot in 2 States, Critics Warn
The transgender agenda appears to have weaseled its way onto the ballot in two states, but voters may not know it. Hidden in the language of two proposed state constitutional amendments is a "right" to transgender medical interventions that would undermine parental rights and make children vulnerable to "treatments" that would leave them scarred, stunted,… -
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Why a ‘Democrat-Leaning Open Seat’ in California Is So Competitive
A California congressional district that had previously been labeled a “Democrat-leaning open seat” has become a “toss up,” according to some analysts as Election Day nears. Republican candidate John Duarte and Democrat candidate Adam Gray are running to represent California’s 13th Congressional District in Tuesday’s general election. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., currently represents California’s 13th Congressional District after defeating Republican candidate… -
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American Fitness Has National Security Implications. It’s Time to Take It More Seriously.
Fiscal year 2023 is projected to be the most difficult year for military recruiting since the inception of the all-volunteer force in 1973. Every branch of the military is reporting extreme challenges in recruiting enough volunteers to fill their ranks. Not only are fewer people volunteering, but there are fewer eligible Americans to recruit as… -
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Florida Medical Boards Ban Transgender Surgeries, Hormones for Minors
The Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine approved a new rule Friday banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries for minors. The two boards approved the rule banning such treatments for young people under 18 during a joint meeting on Friday, according to Florida’s Voice. The Florida Board of… -
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27 of Top 30 Crime-Ridden Cities Run by Democrats
A new report shows that Democrat policies in cities and counties are responsible for rising crime rates in "their otherwise red states." The Heritage Foundation today released a 19-page report titled "The Blue City Murder Problem" that includes analysis on crime data and explores who is responsible for rising crime throughout the U.S. (The Daily… -
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What You Need to Know About Election-Related Referenda on State Ballots
Next Tuesday, voters in many states will weigh in on several election integrity-related referenda. Some are good changes that would improve election integrity; others are bad and would make elections in those states less secure; and one is downright ugly—written in a way intended to fool voters. The good ballot measures include: Arizona Proposition 309, which… -
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Republican National Committee Targets Google Censorship in Lawsuit
After enduring years of targeted censorship, the Republican National Committee is suing Google for its bulk-labeling of millions of RNC campaign email communications to its supporters and donors as “spam” during “pivotal points in election cycles.” The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, where Google has its corporate headquarters, is seeking an injunction ordering… -
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Protester Arrested for Disrupting Supreme Court Oral Arguments Leads Group Protesting at Justices Homes for Months
A protester arrested for disrupting Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday leads one of the pro-abortion groups organizing protests outside the justices’ homes over the last six months. “TONIGHT!! Join me in annoying the pants off the fascists!!” tweeted Nikki Enfield on June 1 as she urged pro-abortion activists to protest outside the homes of Supreme… -
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NBC Raises Eyebrows by Pulling Paul Pelosi Segment
NBC News has sparked backlash by pulling a segment describing the attack on Paul Pelosi, claiming the segment did not meet NBC News reporting standards. The report said NBC had learned from sources that “when officers responded to the high priority call, they were seemingly unaware they had been called to the home of the… -
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House Republicans Release Scathing FBI Whistleblower Report: Bureau Is ‘Rotted at Its Core’
Republican staff at the House Judiciary Committee released a report Friday detailing the claims of "a multitude of whistleblowers" at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who alleged that the FBI is abusing its law enforcement authority to prosecute political opponents, artificially inflate the amount of "hate" in the country, and removing from its ranks staff… -
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Illinois’ Amendment 1 Would Cement Fiscal Train Wreck Into Law
If Illinois residents think things can’t get any worse economically, just wait. On Nov. 8, they’ll vote on an amendment to the state’s constitution that would guarantee it. Rising public sector pension costs are already causing property tax increases and forcing cuts in public safety and other vital services. Now along comes Amendment 1. It’s… -
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Here Are the Most Important Election Cases Playing Out in Courts Before Midterms
With Election Day just around the corner in what might turn out to be one of the most significant midterm congressional elections in many years, lawyers are still in the courts fighting over the rules governing the casting and counting of votes. From the status of undated mail-in ballots to the legality of drop boxes… -
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Another Year Brings More Autocratic Victories Over the Democratic Members of Interpol
The most recent annual meeting of Interpol’s governing body brought more bad news for its democratic member states, including the U.S. Interpol’s General Assembly concluded on Oct. 21. Interpol is still governed by a committee on which stable democracies are in the minority, it is still kowtowing to China over Taiwan, and is still refusing… -
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Iran, Ukraine, and Trump Behind Closed Doors. Former EU Ambassador Tells All in New Book.
President Donald Trump’s greatest foreign policy achievement was the Abraham Accords advancing peace in the Middle East, says Gordon Sondland, who served as ambassador to the European Union under Trump. “I think the strategy behind the Abraham Accords was you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result,” Sondland says. The Abraham… -
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Probe Launched Into Homeland Security’s ‘Taxpayer-Funded Censorship Campaign’
House Oversight Committee Republicans are kicking off an investigation into what they called a “taxpayer-funded censorship campaign” at the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2020, the federal agency has been under fire for working with Big Tech companies to censor certain viewpoints mainly related to election integrity. The GOP launched its investigation after Monday’s report… -
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These 400 Elections Over 2 Years Show How 1 Voter Can Make a Difference
As voting is about to conclude Tuesday in the nation’s midterm elections, data shows that one vote can matter more often than Americans might suspect. More than 400 elections ended in ties or were decided by a single vote in 2021 and 2022, according to a tally by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election… -
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1 State Seeks to Prevent Its Own Roe Among Midterm Choices on Abortion
Having returned the issue of abortion “to the people and their elected representatives” in June with a watershed opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court paved the way for a flurry of state-level activity regulating abortion. Since the high court issued its Dobbs opinion, 13 states have fully outlawed abortion, and… -
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America’s National Security Is Dependent on Critical Rare Earth Minerals—and Worse, on China
The U.S. is currently heading for a major national security train wreck. Bewildering environmental policies, energy plans detached from reality, and an incomprehensible practice of trusting China to provide critical components for both civilian and military technologies is an unsustainable trajectory. The administration has rejected fossil fuels, driving us commercially and across the defense industry… -
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Vacuuming, Moaning: NPR Plays Abortion on Air
On Thursday morning, NPR played an abortion on air. NPR’s Michigan “Morning Edition” on Thursday featured Kate Wells explaining that a Michigan woman aborted her 11-week-old baby at Northland Family Planning in metro Detroit. “Like many patients at Northland, she said I could record her procedure,” Wells, a reporter, says of the mother in the…