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    UN Report Castigates Religion for Stymieing the Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity Agenda

    Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the United Nations’ independent “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity, capped off “Pride Month” in June with his annual report to the Human Rights Council. The report addressed the conflicts between religious freedom and the rights of LGBTQ+ people to be “free from violence and discrimination.” Spoiler alert: Religious freedom loses. Madrigal-Borloz, a…
    Grace Melton
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    Fauci, Other NIH Officials May Have to Pay Back Year’s Salary

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the highest-paid employee of the federal government, might have to pay back his salary for his final year at the National Institutes of Health, based on a congressional committee’s finding that he wasn’t legally appointed by the Biden administration.  Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Monday that they…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Destructiveness of Black Lives Matter 10 Years Later

    Next week marks a decade since Black Lives Matter began disrupting our lives. The media doesn’t mention the group much anymore, mainly to avoid embarrassing evidence of its corruption. But BLM has changed the nation in profound ways, perhaps permanently—and continues to do so. This transformation of America was deliberate. The nation’s newspapers robotically speak…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Bidens Do the Crimes, but Not the Time

    The family that skates together stays together. The influence-peddling, money laundering, and foreign shakedowns encircling Hunter Biden, his uncle Jim, and The Big Guy in the Oval Office have received considerable attention, at least in the conservative media. But even Fox News addicts would be stunned by how many Bidens have T-boned into the law and…
    Deroy Murdock
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    State AGs Warn Target of ‘Concerns’ Over Pride Merch for Kids

    A group of seven state attorneys general sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the retail giant that its Pride clothing line collection may be in violation of state child-protection laws. The letter comes in the wake of public outrage that swelled in May when it was discovered that Target began selling, among other controversial items, “tuck-friendly” swimwear…
    Dan Hart
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    Battle Between Crypto and SEC Far From Over

    June proved to be a momentous month for the cryptocurrency industry, but not in a good way. With Sam Bankman-Fried’s fall from grace and his subsequent criminal indictment, the industry needed good news. After all, the founder and (supposed) crypto-golden boy of FTX Trading Ltd. had been working with Congress and regulators to establish a…
    Zack Smith
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    How to Fix the FBI

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become a serious threat to the liberties of the American people. There’s a growing sense of urgency, especially among conservatives in Congress, that the FBI must be brought under effective oversight and fundamentally reformed to end its weaponization and to resecure our most basic freedoms. Monday, The Heritage Foundation…
    Steve Bradbury
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    Kayak and Canoe Business Files Lawsuit to Stop Gov. Greg Abbott’s Buoy Wall in Rio Grande

    A lawsuit by a canoe and kayak business aims to sink Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s buoy barrier against illegal aliens in the Rio Grande at the nation’s southern border.   Jessie Fuentes, owner of Epi’s Canoe & Kayak Team LLC, filed the lawsuit Friday, the same day that construction of the buoy barrier began. Fuentes claims…
    Virginia Allen
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    Incomplete Design Before Construction Threatens Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter Fleet

    The Coast Guard is currently building a ship without a plan. The Coast Guard’s highest acquisition priority, the offshore patrol cutter program, has risk because construction is underway, but the plans for the ships are not finalized, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. That represents bad news for an already struggling program. The delay…
    Jenna Swiney
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    BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Nick Sandmann’s Attorney Joins Lawsuit Against SPLC

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who secured settlements from CNN, NBC Universal, and The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School teen Nick Sandmann, has joined the legal team for D.A. King and the Dustin Inman Society, who are suing the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation. “We’re proud of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘I WILL … ERADICATE YOU’: Moms for Liberty Threatened, Treated as ‘Subhuman,’ After SPLC Attack

    Images in this article contain swear words. FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Moms for Liberty has received countless death threats, but the messages spiked after the Southern Poverty Law Center put the parental rights group on its "hate map," its cofounders say. "It gave people permission to treat us as subhuman," Tiffany Justice, one of the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    CDC’s Perverted Guidance on ‘Chestfeeding’ Shows Ideological Corruption of Administrative State

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actually has issued official guidance for “nonbinary” people on how to “chestfeed” infants.  This latest woke lunacy isn’t just a disturbing policy. In a larger sense, it demonstrates how powerful governmental institutions have been co-opted on behalf of a larger, elite-driven cultural revolution. The CDC guidance, in isolation,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Zuckerberg’s Twitter Rival Is Already Censoring People for Questioning Gender Ideology

    The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Libs of TikTok, which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app…
    Jason Cohen
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    Democrats’ Assault on ‘Our Democracy’

    At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats and left-wing activists have invariably complained about the imminent perils threatening “our democracy.” Time and again, Democrats have depicted virtually any action they do not approve of—from uncouth Trump tweets…
    Josh Hammer
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    2024 GOP Candidates Condemn CDC Promotion of ‘Chestfeeding’

    Top candidates vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are weighing in on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s promotion of trans-identifying men and women “chestfeeding” infant babies. In guidance on feeding infants posted on the CDC’s website, the federal agency stresses that “transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    House Seeks Secret Service Briefing on Cocaine at White House

    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants answers from the Secret Service about the cocaine found in the White House over the Fourth of July weekend.  Meanwhile, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said any White House staffer who brought the substance will face “appropriate consequences.”   President Joe Biden so far has ignored…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Shameful’: Expert Assails State Department on Afghanistan ‘After Action’ Report

    The State Department has released an “After Action Review on Afghanistan” nearly two years after the U.S.’ catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021. The report was released following a 90-day review and included more than “150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Robert Kennedy Jr. Proves He’s Willing to Bow to the Woke Rage Mob

    Moms for Liberty, a group that advocates for parental rights in education, announced on June 20 that Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be speaking at its annual Joyful Warriors National Summit in Philadelphia. One week later, the Kennedy campaign released a statement announcing that Kennedy’s “schedule changed” and that he could “no…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Critics Have Scoop for Ben & Jerry’s: US Not Built on ‘Stolen’ Land

    Ben & Jerry’s is facing criticism after the ice cream maker accused the United States of having been “founded on stolen Indigenous land.” On Independence Day, the Vermont-based ice cream maker posted on Twitter: “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the U.S. exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning…
    Gigi De La Torre
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    Mothers Swing at CDC for Equating Male Nipple Secretions to Breast Milk

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new transgender-themed guidance on biological men and "chestfeeding" infant babies has roused the wrath of mothers across the nation, many of whom are well acquainted with the vulnerability, intricacies, and intimacy of breastfeeding their children. "Transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed at the…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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