Political Commentary & Opinion

Vice News published a story last fall asserting that Libs of TikTok, the popular social media account run by Chaya Raichik, was responsible for a rise in school bomb threats. The reporter, Tess Owen, wrote that “bomb threats targeting schools or school districts following Libs of TikTok posts appears to be a particularly ominous escalation.”…

A group of female athletes sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday over the organization allowing “transgender” athletes to compete against them and use locker rooms for women. The lawsuit, filed by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) on behalf of more than a dozen female athletes, alleges that the NCAA violated Title IX,…

It has been 40 years since a Republican presidential candidate won Washington state. Today, Democrats enjoy a “trifecta” there, controlling the governorship and both chambers of the Washington State Legislature. But despite Democrats’ firm grip on state government, conservatives just scored their own “trifecta” victory in the deep-blue stronghold.   The conservative grassroots organization Let’s…

A new study has found that maternal death rates in the United States have likely been strongly exaggerated due to misclassifications of maternal deaths. The study, published Wednesday in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, found that the United States’ maternal death rates have been inflated for the past two decades due to data-classification…

The housing market is not immune from inflationary woes as buyers’ purchasing power has significantly diminished in four years. Homebuyers in 2024 need 80% more income to purchase a home than they did in 2020, according to a new report by Zillow. “The income needed to comfortably afford a home is up 80% since 2020,…

A group of financial officials from 16 states sent a letter to asset management giant State Street Global Advisors on Thursday urging the firm to offer investors options that do not incorporate environmental, social, and governance concerns, which push green initiatives. State Street offers both an ESG and non-ESG fund, but the letter points out that current…

Sea level rise on planet Earth could be attributed in part to astronomical influences that involve the sun, moon, and other planets, according to a new research paper from The Heritage Foundation taking aim at media reports on climate change that fixate on carbon dioxide emissions while ignoring other factors. The gravitational interactions of heavenly…

England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. “Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, because there is not enough evidence…

The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act on March 5. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the…

Sen. Tommy Tuberville is calling on coaches, administrators, and athletic directors to stand up for their female athletes forced to compete against men identifying as women. “Coaches and administrators, stand up for your athletes—or get out of the profession,” the Alabama Republican, a former collegiate football coach, said during a roundtable discussion with advocates for…

A new poll finds that by a margin of nearly 3 to 1, respondents don’t think that it should be legal to provide minors with puberty blockers, drugs, and/or surgery to transition from one sex to the other. And by an even bigger margin, better than 7 to 1, respondents said that biological males who…