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‘America Wrapped’: Who Hit Top Political Chart of 2024
Like clockwork, December brings the anticipation of Christmas, holiday gatherings with families and friends, and the release of your personalized Spotify Wrapped. For you Pandora or Apple Music users out there, Spotify delivers a personalized “year in review” to each of its users in early December. Music lovers learn who their top artists were for… -
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The Kids Online Safety Act Prioritizes Kids and Free Speech
Big Tech is terrified that unfettered access to our children is close to an end. And when industry business models thrive on luring minors, they have every reason to be paranoid of the Kids Online Safety Act. That bill has been one of the most clamored-for pieces of legislation in the 118th Congress. Designed as… -
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‘EGREGIOUS’: Detransitioner Sues Doctor Who Prescribed Her Irreversible Sex-Change Drugs at 12
When Clementine Breen began getting puberty blockers at age 12, she had no idea she was agreeing to become a lifelong patient. Breen, now a 20-year-old detransitioner, filed a lawsuit last Thursday against prominent child-gender specialist Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, alleging medical negligence. Breen says Olson-Kennedy pushed her into irreversible transgender medical interventions at only 12… -
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Sen. James Lankford Offers Sneak Peak Into How Exactly DOGE Will Clean Up Government Waste and Abuse
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped two innovative businessmen—Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—to head the Department of Government Efficiency as the new advisory commission works to eliminate waste and abuse from the federal government. The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t a government agency, however, and lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate have teamed up to… -
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Trump Can End Universal Birthright Citizenship. The Constitution Never Required It.
President-elect Donald Trump has once again promised to “end birthright citizenship” for the U.S.-born children of illegal and nonimmigrant aliens. But can he do this without amending the Constitution? Yes, he can—at least according to the original meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which, as I explained at great length in an earlier law… -
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Stop Comparing Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione. They Are Not the Same.
The cases of Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione are not the same, and neither deserves to be equated to the other. Daniel Penny is a Marine who defended a subway car full of people from a violent unstable homeless man flailing around, screaming that he would kill everyone and didn’t care if he went to… -
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Wray Exiting as FBI Director
Christopher Wray is resigning as FBI director, multiple news outlets are reporting. Wray, who President Donald Trump appointed in 2017, had three years left in his term. However, the move isn’t as a surprise as now President-elect Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel to be the new FBI director. Trump happily accepted the news… -
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Daniel Penny Stands by His Actions, Says He’d Face Court ‘Million’ Times to Save Others
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Marine Daniel Penny said Tuesday that he stands by his actions on a New York City subway, despite enduring years of harsh criticism. During an interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro on “The Five,” Penny revealed his motivations and said he intervened to prevent potential harm as he prioritizes the safety of others over… -
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Missing the Public School ‘Segregation’ Forest for the Trees
ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars.” The article focuses on 20 private schools in North Carolina founded during the civil rights era with student bodies that are 85% or more white. “Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation—and,… -
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‘No One Gets Away With That S–t’: Alums of Hegseth-led Veterans Group Dismantle Media Narrative
Editor's note: This article uses the generic "he" to refer to all sources who requested anonymity, but this use doesn't necessarily mean the person cited is a man. Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News Channel host and veterans advocate who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, has been hard at work on Capitol… -
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House Dems Bemoan GOP Effort to Block Military Funding for Child ‘Sex Changes’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—House Democrats are attacking the Republican Party’s move to stop the military from paying for child sex-change treatments in the National Defense Authorization Act. House Republicans negotiating the most recent iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act managed to include language that expressly prohibits the military from paying for “medical interventions for the treatment… -
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Legacy Media Pretend There’s No Cost to Biden’s Mass Importation of Illegal Immigrants
The Trump-loathing media hate the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration. On Sunday, ABC’s “This Week” moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on the cost: “A recent… -
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Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Who Says Flooding Job Market With Illegal Aliens Helps Americans
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how flooding the job market with illegal immigrants benefits Americans. Melnick previously stated in October that mass deportations would be detrimental to many American industries, including hospitality, construction, and agriculture. During a hearing… -
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Birthright Citizenship Is a Breach in the Border
“Birthright citizenship” may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it’s the biggest legal hole in our border. President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to seal it, but it won’t be easy. When the Supreme Court handed down its United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision, illegal immigration was nothing like… -
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Joe Biden’s Work-From-Home Bureaucracy
WASHINGTON—“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report released Thursday that paints a dystopian picture of the federal workforce inside the vaunted beltway. It’s been nearly five years since COVID-19 knocked on America’s door. Most schools and businesses opened… -
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Putting the BS in BLS: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Made-Up Job Numbers
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. New job numbers are out and—hilariously—payrolls jumped 227,000, yet persons employed dropped 355,000. Are they just making it up? The numbers are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which—thanks to the power of imagination—reports that jobs are… -
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‘SENATE MUST DELIVER’: New Heritage Action Ads Urge Speedy Confirmation for Trump Nominees
Americans in nine states and the District of Columbia will soon see digital ads calling on them to urge their senators to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees. “This is the first stage of targeted advertising to urge undecided senators in a positive way to complete a swift confirmation process of President Trump’s nominees," Ryan… -
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Biden the Tyrant
President Joe Biden is the authoritarian threat the Left claims Donald Trump will be. Just look at his pardon of Hunter Biden. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Biden gave his son, who was facing sentencing for gun and tax charges, a “get out of jail free” card. Joe Biden didn’t just pardon Hunter Biden for those crimes…. -
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Trump Must Replace Biden Appointee Who’s ‘Destroyed Career Staff’s Confidence in the Honesty’ of Her Agency’s Leadership
The voters have spoken—they are ready for change. Tired of government overspending, overregulation, and excessive economic intervention, the American people seek real economic reform. Consumers have grown weary of paying the price for overreaching government policies and now hope for meaningful, impactful change. An immediate priority for the Trump administration should be appointing a new… -
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Sen Cruz: How the Media Will Cover Illegal Alien Deportations
President-elect Donald Trump made mass deportations a pillar of his winning campaign platform. Trump and Tom Homan—the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who Trump tapped to be his border czar—say they will prioritize the deportations of criminal illegal aliens. Whether all of the estimated more than 10 million illegal aliens who…