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    Meet Biden’s Second Nominee to Head ATF

    President Joe Biden on Monday nominated Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio with a record of supporting gun control measures, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Dettelbach has a history of backing gun control measures, promoting several firearms restrictions during an unsuccessful 2018 campaign to become Ohio’s…
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    Who Suffers the Most From America’s Crime Wave?

    Violent crime, like the price of gas, is rising. Not everyone is experiencing this crime wave in the same way. For some, it’s a distant issue experienced by other people somewhere else. For others, it’s a daily life-threatening concern. We parsed the FBI’s crime data from 2011 to 2020 (the most recent data available) and…
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    Under Top Prosecutor’s Policies, Sheriff Says, ‘It’s Profitable to Do Crime in Los Angeles County’

    LOS ANGELES—The policies of Los Angeles’ top prosecutor have created an environment rich for crime, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says.  “It’s profitable to do crime in Los Angeles County,” Villanueva, a Democrat, said during a Heritage Foundation event Thursday night in downtown LA focused on District Attorney George Gascon.  “We're having people [from]…
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    Someone Tipped Off Secret Service Dupers Before FBI Raid, Prosecutor Says

    Two men accused of posing as federal law enforcement agents were tipped off to the FBI’s raid on their apartments, according to a court document filed Sunday. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were arrested Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on suspicion of posing as Department of Homeland Security agents since as early as February 2020 to…
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    Why These Moms of Murdered Sons Want Justice From LA’s Progressive District Attorney

    LOS ANGELES—Ana Estevez should have celebrated her son Piqui’s 10th birthday Feb. 19. Instead, she grieved over the five years she has awakened each day unable to say good morning to her little boy.  “He was just the joy of my life,” Estevez, a resident of Long Beach, California, says of Piqui. “He was everything…
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    Hunter Biden, the Invisible Government, and the Laptop From Hell

    In 1912, President Theodore Roosevelt warned, “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” This nearly 100-year-old warning…
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    When Will Big Tech, Big Media Apologize for Lying About, Censoring Hunter Biden Story?

    President Joe Biden says he never talked business with his son. Maybe he didn’t. Maybe that Ukrainian gas company paid Hunter Biden half-a-million dollars because he has unique business skills that no one else noticed. It’s possible. But unlikely. Now a Justice Department investigation may tell us whether Hunter Biden is a sleazy opportunist who…
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    Why the Sudden Hunter Biden Epiphany at Washington Post?

    Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that a notable fraction of his laptop contents was authentic. Why now? Why not last year? Why did liberal outlets act like everyone expressing concern about Biden was a Trump-adoring kook?…
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    Censorship of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Confirms Need to Rein in Big Tech or Cease to Be Free People

    On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden. In an October move that would presage the collapse of the “public”-“private” distinction during the Biden presidency—as seen in press…
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    Hunter Biden Laptop Revelations Uncover Depth of Elite Institutional Corruption

    America’s most powerful, elite institutions now cooperate to misinform the public and suppress dissent. It’s hard to think otherwise during the arc of the Hunter Biden laptop story that turned out to be true. Last week, The New York Times reporters wrote that they authenticated email “obtained by The New York Times from a cache…
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    Biden Owes Border Patrol Belated Apology Over Phony Charges of ‘Whipping’ Illegal Aliens

    Lest anyone still thinks the Biden administration supports the U.S. Border Patrol, we have now passed the six-month mark since the administration called for an investigation of horse patrol agents engaging with Haitian migrants illegally entering the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas. The administration still hasn’t released the completed investigation report. After clearly making up…
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    Hunter Biden Laptop Revelation Shows War on ‘Misinformation’ a Sham

    Nothing makes Washington elites clutch their pearls like the specter of “misinformation.” “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets: Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that is on your shows,” President Joe Biden said in January, talking about the COVID-19 pandemic. “It has to stop.” Yet when the “misinformation”…
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    Amazon Bails Out of Downtown Seattle Due to Violent Crime Surge, Dodges Consequence of Woke Policies

    Amazon is getting out of Dodge. Well, more accurately, Seattle. The massive, mostly online retailer announced recently that it’s relocating 1,800 employees out of a downtown Seattle location due to a huge uptick in violent crime. “Given recent incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office…
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    17 Months Late, Millions Short at NY Times on Hunter Biden’s Laptop

    Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story. “In the category of — didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “The @nytimes confirms the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails derived from his laptop that had been previously dismissed as Russian disinformation.” The obvious joke about…
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    Soft on Crime? Here’s Jackson’s Record on Sex Offenders and Other Criminals

    Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson once expressed concern about a “climate of fear, hatred, and revenge” surrounding sex offenders. Jackson later opposed the confinement conditions of a Taliban leader suspected of running a terrorist cell.  The judge also routinely ruled against the Trump administration on immigration enforcement cases, as detailed here.  Now, as President Joe Biden’s…
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    Performing ‘Sex-Change Procedures’ on Kids Is Child Abuse, Texas’ Attorney General Says. He’s Right, and I Should Know.

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a formal legal opinion last week concluding that performing certain “sex-change procedures” on children—including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers—constitutes child abuse under Texas law. As someone who identified as a woman for eight years, I agree. In his Feb. 18 statement, Paxton methodically builds the case for his…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Demands Answers After Whistleblowers Allege Nurse Performed Abortions With Expired License, Turned ‘Blind Eye’ to Sex Trafficking

    Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina is demanding explanations from the North Carolina Board of Nursing following reports that a nurse performed abortions after her medical license had expired and turned “a blind eye” to the sex trafficking of underage girls.  “It has come to my attention that Deborah Jane Walsh, a nurse who operates…
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    ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ of Soft-on-Crime Liberal Politicians Won’t Curb Urban Killing Fields

    Trust in government has been declining since the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. According to Pew Research, only 36% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents and 9% of Republicans and those leaning Republican now trust government. Who can blame them, given the failure of government to perform on many levels? One might think that trust by…
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    EXCLUSIVE: GOP Bill Would Require Abortionists to Report Suspected Trafficking Victims

    Legislation proposed by Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina would require abortion providers to file a report with the National Human Trafficking Hotline if they suspect a patient at the clinic is a victim of human trafficking.  The Daily Signal first obtained a copy of the legislation, the Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act of…
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  • opinion

    Fight Crime: Arm America’s Citizens

    America’s surge in grotesque, random mayhem has become a coast-to-coast crime epic. Some examples: •Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and 10 other cities set new murder records last year. Democrats control all 12 locales. •Police accuse Shawn Laval Smith, a violent “homeless” man, of fatally stabbing UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer on Jan. 13 while she worked in…
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