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    Beverly Hills Wants Rabbi’s In-Home Religious Gatherings to Cease and Desist. He’s Not Budging.

    A rabbi in Beverly Hills is fighting for his First Amendment rights after the Los Angeles suburb sent him a “notice of violations,” seeking to prevent him from holding Jewish services in his home.  The nonprofit First Liberty Institute and the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which represent Rabbi Levi Illulian, sent a…
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    As Trials Near, Pro-Life Activists Demand Repeal of Unequally Enforced FACE Act

    Jury selection began Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trials of the first five of 10 pro-life activists indicted under the FACE Act.  The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act “prohibits threats of force, obstruction and property damage intended to interfere with reproductive health care services,” according to the Department of Justice.  The activists,…
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    Gender Zealots Out to Cancel Politicians, Religious Leaders for Speaking Truth

    Two politicians from Mexico traveled last week to Washington, D.C., to share chilling stories of how their left-wing government is punishing them for speaking out against gender ideology. The politicians, Rodrigo Iván Cortés and Gabriel Quadri, criticized Mexico’s ruling party, the Movement for Social Regeneration (or Morena), which runs a government with a totalitarian streak….
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    Don’t Defend Planned Parenthood’s ‘Gender-Affirming Care.’ Defund It.

    In post-Roe America, Planned Parenthood is shifting gears. To make up for its lost abortion revenue, it’s expanding its reach into what it calls “transgender hormone therapy.” The recent spike in these services is telling. According to their most recent annual reports, most of the nearly 600 Planned Parenthood centers now dispense cross-sex hormones. In…
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    First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.

    First, they came for pizza ovens. Now, they’re coming for ice cream trucks. New York City Democrats have decided to take down what they’ve identified as the city’s—make that, the planet’s—biggest threat. If you thought that meant that they were finally going to go hard after crime or ditch Manhattan’s soft-on-crime district attorney, Alvin Bragg,…
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    ‘ESPECIALLY CRUEL’: Mother of Down Syndrome Daughter Calls Montgomery County’s Denial to Opt Out ‘an Attack on Children’

    GREENBELT, Md.—Muslim and Christian parents protested Wednesday outside the U.S. District Court of Maryland two hours before the court would hear arguments about the Montgomery County school district's refusal to allow them to opt their children out of the LGBTQ book curriculum “Pride Storybooks." Grace Morrison, a Catholic mother who has a daughter with Down…
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    House Panel Hears From Gender Medicine’s ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ on His Insane Surgical Option for Minors

    Light may be breaking through the darkness of gender ideology, as revealed by a recent hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on “due process violations and gender-affirming care.” During the hearing, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., showed part of a video interview with Dr. Blair Peters, who performs transgender surgeries on minors and adults at Oregon Health…
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    How That ‘Scientific Consensus’ on Climate Change Was ‘Manufactured’

    We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.” She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change….
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    Pop Star Doubles Down on Opposing Gender Transitions for Children

    A pop star is doubling down on comments blasting parents who allow their children to undergo gender-transition procedures. In a Saturday night interview on VladTV, singer-songwriter Ne-Yo addressed the transgender agenda, explaining, “I just personally come from an era where a man was a man and a woman was a woman, and there wasn’t but two…
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    To Protect ‘Dignity’ of Homosexuals, Court Must ‘Exclude’ Bible Tweet ‘From Freedom of Expression,’ Finland Prosecutor Argues

    A member of Finland's parliament will appear in court later this month, again facing "hate speech" charges for a tweet citing Bible verses, more than a year after a district court dismissed the charges against her. Prosecutors appealed the Helsinki District Court's unanimous March 2022 ruling clearing Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish parliament…
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    How Feminist Movement Drew Ideology From the Occult

    The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the feminist movement, author Carrie Gress says.  Ideas of the “the occult, smashing the patriarchy, and free love” played a significant role in Shelley’s writing and ideology, says Gress, author of the new…
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    Obesity Epidemic Threatens Not Just Public Health, but Also National Security

    When contemplating the greatest threats to American national security, an aggressive Communist China or expansionist Russia properly come to mind. However, there’s another threat closer to home, one that affects millions of Americans and is already affecting our national security. It’s obesity. More than 41% of Americans are categorized as obese (having a body mass…
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    Close Brush With Insanity: Maryland’s Pot Law Impedes Police Efforts to Stop Drug-Impaired Driving 

     “They call it dope for a reason,” anti-drug campaigns used to say. These public service campaigns were referring to the people who use drugs, but a marijuana law recently passed by the Maryland General Assembly shows that the slogan could apply to some legislators too. That’s harsh, but accurate. Why? Under a statute that took…
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    End the Practice of Federal Government Serving as Unions’ Bill Collector

    Imagine if membership organizations could get the federal government to serve as their bill collector, subtracting membership costs from workers’ paychecks before they see them and sending the money directly to the organization. That special privilege actually exists for federal employees’ unions, but the Paycheck Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., would end…
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    Planned Parenthood, ACLU Fight to Keep Child Marriage Legal

    If you think child brides are the stuff of faraway cultures, think again. In 2017, child marriage was legal in all 50 states in America. Only recently have survivors started chipping away at the practice, using their nightmarish stories to put a stop to the abuse of (mostly) young girls. California was next in line…
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    Is Movie’s Barbie a Frankenstein Wannabe?

    It was almost the end of the movie. On a whim, I sat there, as a young woman in my 20s, with hundreds of adult men and women (somewhat scantily) clad in pinks, sparkles, and flash to watch a sentimental journey unfold. Several cheap laughs and a half-baked, simple plot later, it was apparent this…
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    Vermont Law Bans Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Counseling Women

    A new law in Vermont may end up shutting down pro-life pregnancy centers, banning them from offering non-medical services and providing post-abortion counseling, as well as subjecting them to steep fines if the state deems their advertising “misleads” women into thinking they provide or promote abortions. Two Vermont faith-based pregnancy centers have filed a lawsuit…
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    Child-Trafficking Bust Proves the Left Was Wrong About ‘Sound of Freedom’

    While 126 more suspects in child trafficking and child sexual exploitation are eating prison food today, many legacy media outlets are eating crow. Less than a month after liberal and left-wing media outlets slammed the child sex-trafficking docudrama “Sound of Freedom” for supposedly being a rallying point for “QAnon supporters,” conspiracy theorists, and “Dads with…
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    UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Pro-Trans Health Care Group Issues Contradictory Stance on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

    Imagine the Food and Drug Administration announces a new drug with some known side effects and no proven benefits and says, "We're not quite sure this is safe for the public. We need to run more tests, but until we learn more, everyone should take it anyway." COVID-19 vaccines notwithstanding, the American public would rightly…
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    ‘Snow White’ Is Latest Disney Film to Get Woke-Washed

    To no one’s surprise, Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of “Snow White” is shaping up to be yet another left-wing, woke attempt to right the perceived wrongs of the original. “Snow White” was Disney’s first feature film, and it contained elements that do not fare well with the Left’s sensibilities almost a century later. Critics accuse…
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