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    Let’s Stop Paying Beijing to Steal Our Gene Code

    The House of Representatives’ annual defense bill currently under consideration includes an amendment from Rep. Mike Gallagher that would ban federal agencies from giving taxpayer dollars to China’s largest genomics company, the Beijing Genomics Institute, also known as BGI. Gallagher, R-Wis., is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United…
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    SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Examining 7 Accusations of Harassment Against Moms for Liberty

    Even before the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited far-left smear factory, put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its "hate map" alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, left-leaning outlets had repeated claims that the parental rights group's leaders had harassed school board members or other moms who disagreed with them. The…
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    Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

    The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School was biologically female. Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give…
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    How a Rifle Unlocked the Stories of America’s WWII Veterans

    Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun.  “When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder…
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    ‘A Man in a Dress’: Glamour Magazine Ridiculed for Trans Model Among Its ‘Women of Year’

    Glamour magazine has named a transgender model to its 2023 Women of the Year list, forgoing the requirement of having to be an actual female to receive the award.  Geena Rocero is an author and activist. Glamour named six women along with Rocero, including actresses, models, and an abortion-activist doctor, in its Nov. 1 announcement.  View…
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    USA Today Reveals True Colors With Front-Page Hit Piece on Libs of TikTok

    They still call their national newspaper USA Today, but on some days, the front page looks more like “LGBTQIA Today.” The bold top headline for Oct. 6 was “When Libs of TikTok posts, threats increasingly follow.” The author of the story is Will Carless, whose beat is “extremism.” Beware, that beat is almost always just…
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    Whose Baby Is It? The Complications of Surrogacy

    You don’t hear too much about surrogacy unless a celebrity is mentioned in the same breath. While women like Kim Kardashian, Rebel Wilson, Paris Hilton, and Chrissy Teigen have made headlines for hiring a surrogate to carry their baby, celebrities are not the only ones opting to use a surrogate.  The National Library of Medicine…
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    Candidates and Moderators: Hits and Misses From Third GOP Debate

    The third Republican presidential debate was held on Wednesday night in Miami. Five candidates took the stage: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.  Former President Donald Trump was again absent, choosing instead to hold a…
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    8 Key Moments From Third GOP Primary Debate

    Five Republican candidates were on stage Wednesday night for the third GOP presidential debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. NBC News’ Lester Holt and Kristen Welker were moderators for the two-hour debate, along with conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewitt of “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” The Republican Jewish Coalition co-sponsored…
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    Vivek Ramaswamy Slams Liberal Debate Moderators: ‘This Should Be Tucker Carlson’

    Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tore into the liberal debate moderators during Wednesday evening’s presidential debate, questioning why the media that “rigged the 2016 election” is hosting the debate. Ramaswamy described himself upset with the results of Tuesday evening’s election results, saying that the Republican Party has “become a party of losers at the end…
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    WATCH LIVE: The Third 2024 GOP Primary Debate

    Five Republican candidates are taking the stage in Miami to make their cases that they can lead the Republican Party to victory in 2024. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott qualified for this debate. North Dakota…
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    Another Time in the Tenderloin

    When I graduated from Princeton in 1981, there were two things that I wanted to do: make my living as a writer and live in the city where I was born. That was San Francisco. During some summers in my college years, I had worked for a family-owned car rental company that had its headquarters…
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    ‘This Is How I Know God Has His Hand on It’: Riley Gaines Made Advocating for Women’s Sports Her Full-Time Job

    Twelve-time NCAA All-American college swimmer Riley Gaines questioned, “Where are the feminists?” when she was forced to compete against a male athlete who said he was a transgender woman. He was “leading the country by body lengths” in swim competitions, leaving his female competitors behind. “Our equal opportunities, our dignity, our mental health, all of…
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    Canceling Cancel Culture

    “I was not genuine in my own beliefs,” says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. “I self-censored.” Why? What did this college student believe that was so unacceptable that she felt she had to hide it? The fact that she’s a right-leaning libertarian. “I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell and Jordan Peterson books…
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    Michigan Parentage Bill Ignores Importance of Biology

    State lawmakers in Michigan are gearing up this week to vote on the state’s first assisted reproduction and surrogacy parentage act. That may sound like a pro-child and pro-family effort, but it’s just the opposite. The devil, as always, is in the details. Assisted reproduction refers to adults who use methods like in vitro fertilization,…
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    Parents Bill of Rights Is ‘Common Sense,’ Rep. Julia Letlow Says

    Parents should have the right to know what their children are being taught in school and to have their voices heard when they have concerns. That’s why Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., introduced the Parents Bill of Rights.  “It’s actually appalling to me … that we have to have a Parents Bill of Rights, but in…
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    Virginia Democrats Poised to Control Both State Chambers

    Democrats are projected to maintain control of the Virginia Senate and state’s House of Delegates in legislative elections that shaped up to be a major ballot test for the political capital of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.  After 11:25 p.m. Tuesday, The Associated Press projected Democrats would keep the state Senate. Later in the night, the…
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    Andy Beshear Wins Second Term in Kentucky

    Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear won a second term Tuesday after running a campaign where he cast himself as a moderate and distanced himself from his fellow Democrat, President Joe Biden, The Associated Press is projecting. He defeated Republican state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who would have been the first elected black Republican governor in…
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    Female Athlete’s Injury Creates Outrage Around Coed Sports

    A Massachusetts student athlete had two teeth knocked out Thursday when she was struck in the face by a male opponent during a high school coed field hockey game, leading to the questioning of the wisdom of mixing the sexes in certain coed school sports.  The Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment has been around since the…
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    Best Way to Change Trans Policies in Sports? Women Refuse to Play

    As more youth experience gender confusion and join athletics, in the name of political correctness sports associations often allow males who “identify” as females to compete alongside females. These male athletes then beat the female athletes because of their physiological advantages. If sports associations won’t change their policies to make the playing field level again,…
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