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The Biden Administration’s Very Selective ‘National Emergency’ to Free Americans Wrongfully Detained Abroad
The Biden administration has been praising itself in a Department of State press release for successfully bringing home American citizens who had spent years in Iran “imprisoned as part of the Iranian regime’s cruel practice of wrongful detention.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken even touted the administration’s commitment to ensuring it has “brought home every wrongfully…Steven Bucci -
Biden Admin Tries to Force Its Religion on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
In President Joe Biden’s America, if you disagree with transgender orthodoxy, you might not be able to run a business. Federal law prohibits harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace, and under Biden, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize that law against employers who believe that biological sex can’t be altered…Tyler O’Neil -
Biden Admin Twists the Law to Force Abortion Policies on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
Last year, Congress passed a law to protect pregnant women from employer discrimination, and Democrats insisted the law could not be used to force employers to provide leave for abortions. “Under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act … the [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] could not—could not—issue any regulation that requires abortion leave, nor does the act…Tyler O’Neil -
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? Heritage Sues After Biden Admin Refuses to Hand Over Docs on SPLC, Moms for Liberty
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Has the Biden administration acted against the parental rights group Moms for Liberty after the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center put it on a "hate map" with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan? The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project asked that question, demanding records from various agencies under the Freedom of Information…Tyler O’Neil -
German Refugee Family of Homeschoolers Targeted for Deportation by Biden Administration
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and…Kate Anderson -
Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern border of the U.S. The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He is now written…Victor Davis Hanson -
Here’s Another Way the Biden Admin Might Push Illegal Student Debt-Shifting Scheme
It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s decision to block President Joe Biden’s student debt bailout attempts has motivated his administration to find new ways to bypass Congress and the American people. That’s because the Biden administration wants to fulfill a campaign promise to its left-wing political base ahead of the 2024 election cycle. This time, the administration appears to be…Ryan Walker -
Biden Admin’s Latest Political Target: Christopher Rufo
The weaponization of the federal government against President Joe Biden’s political opponents and anyone fighting “woke” orthodoxy is going at such dizzying speed that it’s hard to keep pace. Now, the authorities are investigating Christopher Rufo, a conservative commentator who is on the board of the New College of Florida, for—among other crimes—refusing to address someone as…Mike Gonzalez -
House GOP Questions Biden Admin Probe of Christopher Rufo’s Pronoun Use
House Republicans are asking the Biden administration’s Education Department why it opened an investigation into scholar and commentator Christopher Rufo over his decision not to use the personal pronouns “ze” and “zer.” Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank who is on the board of the New College of Florida, spoke Wednesday on…Fred Lucas -
Biden Admin’s Revolving Door Into Media Spins Heavily
No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification. NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent Laura Jarrett was going to be a co-host of the “Today” news program on Saturdays. She is the…Tim Graham -
‘Egregiously Obvious’ That Biden Admin Violated First Amendment Rights, Tech Policy Expert Says
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently tweeted a lengthy thread in hopes of exposing Americans to the so-called Facebook Files. Using all capital letters, Jordan wrote July 27: “THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE.” Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also has tweeted about…Samantha Aschieris -
Is Obama Pulling Strings on a ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Biden Administration?
Who’s running the federal government? That question has been asked frequently as President Joe Biden continues to demonstrate signs of severe physical and mental decline. The president often seems barely there. It strains credulity that a man who can hardly put a sentence together at this point is fully carrying out his duties as commander…Jarrett Stepman -
Biden Administration and University Leaders Hold Summit to Strategize Continuing Racial Discrimination
President Joe Biden’s Department of Education is attempting to circumvent the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against using racial discrimination in college admissions. In its ruling, the Supreme Court found that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina had limited the admission of Asian candidates in favor of other “racial groups.” Citing the 14th Amendment…Tony Kinnett -
Details of IRS Whistleblowers’ Testimony That Knocked Biden Administration on Its Heels
Last week, IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS criminal investigator Joseph Ziegler testified in detail about how Justice Department lawyers and FBI officials hindered their investigation of Hunter Biden‘s financial dealings. Based on the preponderance of evidence about these and past abuses, there is no longer any question that the FBI must be reformed…Hans von Spakovsky -
The Biden Administration’s Plot to Kneecap Merit in Federal Hiring
In yet another example of the Biden administration’s aggressively woke diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is now proposing to kneecap the government’s ability to hire the most qualified candidates for federal job openings. Its specious reasoning? To close the supposed federal “wage gap” between male and female or white…Benjamin Paris -
Americans ‘Are Waking Up’ to Biden Admin’s ‘Assault on Their Retirement Accounts,’ GOP Lawmaker Says
Investors throughout the U.S. “are being held hostage by those who … don’t want to maximize retirement profits, but rather seek to push a far left social and political agenda,” according to Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. “Forcing lower returns on Americans who are trying to build a securer financial future is wrong,” Huizenga said on…Samantha Aschieris -
ORDER UPHELD: Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s ‘Orwellian’ Collusion With Big Tech to Suppress Free Speech
UPDATE July 11, 2023: Judge Terry Doughty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Monday rejected the Biden administration's motion for a stay of his historic July 4 preliminary injunction preventing the administration from pressuring Big Tech to censor Americans. Two days after Doughty issued the injunction, the Biden administration…Tyler O’Neil -
How This Accountability Group Exposes Biden Admin’s Woke Policies
The Biden administration’s embrace of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—or DEI—represents an effort to “create equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity,” an advocate of conservative reforms says. Tarren Bragdon, president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, says the Biden administration has taken actions to “use the power of the federal…Virginia Allen -
Biden Admin ‘Grossly Misusing Foreign Aid’ to Push Radical Agenda, Former USAID Official Says
President Joe Biden’s administration is “grossly misusing foreign aid,” says Max Primorac, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “The Biden administration has subordinated U.S. foreign policy to its radical domestic social agenda and [is] grossly misusing foreign aid as a taxpayer-funded vehicle to promote abortion, gender…Samantha Aschieris -
Biden Admin’s Greatest Foe? ‘It’s the Moms, Stupid’
The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers and fathers. They stand athwart the administration’s mad dash to remake America, yelling, “Stop!” This much can be gleaned from recent events. First is last week’s announcement that Randi Weingarten,…Mike Gonzalez