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14 Defensive Gun Uses That Show Armed Citizens Promote Public Safety
Hawaii’s high court last week thumbed its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence, declaring that the right to bear arms in public clashes with the “Aloha spirit” and therefore doesn’t really apply in that state. That’s right. The Hawaii Supreme Court believes it can water down and reinterpret the federal Bill of… -
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Actors on ‘The Chosen’ Explain Joys, Challenges of Portraying Biblical Characters on the Big Screen
The Bible provides readers with glimpses into the personalities of Jesus’ Twelve Apostles, but little is known about the details of their lives. That can be both a challenge and creative opportunity for the actors and writers on the set of the hit series “The Chosen.” “We know he’s known as ‘Doubting Thomas,’” says Joey… -
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Biden Admin Would Rather Align With Marxists Than Pro-Western Leaders in Latin America
Juan Gonzalez, who led the Biden administration’s curious policy of embracing anti-U.S. Marxist leaders in Latin America while making enemies of their pro-Western counterparts, has resigned his post as the National Security Council’s top hemispheric adviser. Gonzalez (no relation) will depart President Joe Biden’s National Security Council in March to spend more time with his children, an anonymous official told Bloomberg on… -
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Asylum Zombies: The BorderLine
In France last June, an unnamed Syrian “refugee” stabbed six people on a playground. He had applied for asylum in France but was rejected—because he had already received asylum in Sweden a few years earlier. In Switzerland last week, a man with an ax took passengers hostage on a train until police shot him. Thought… -
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Confrontational Willis Fends Off Disqualification From Trump Case in Georgia Hearing
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor in the Georgia racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, testified Thursday that he was reimbursed with cash for vacations he took with his boss, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis—with whom he admitted having an affair. “It was cash,” Wade said. “She didn’t give me any checks.” In a… -
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Mountain of Expenses: Denver’s Fiscal Woes Climb as Illegal Aliens Overwhelm City
Denver is buckling under a financial crisis caused by illegal immigration. But the fault lies not in the stars, but with the city itself. “Denver will cut hours at recreation centers, end in-person vehicle-registration renewals and eliminate spring flower beds to save $5 million this year, a response to the migrant crisis that is expected… -
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Surgeon Who Performs Transgender Vaginoplasties: Complications ‘Can Be Pretty Bad’
A prominent surgeon stated that complications from vaginoplastic surgery that aims at removing male genitals and creating a vagina “can be pretty bad” and noted that there was “a growing number of programs throughout the world of gender affirmation, probably with a lack of training and not proper training,” according to the video of a… -
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Climate Activism Fund Financing Literal Attacks on US Constitution
This week, a group of activists called Declare Emergency, funded by the Climate Emergency Fund, poured red powder on the case housing the Constitution in the National Archives and blocked the George Washington Parkway, which is perpetually filled with Washington, D.C., commuters. This follows climate change protests where activists smeared red paint on the African… -
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‘Deepfake’ Danger: Children Who Exploit Other Kids Online Using Pornographic Imagery
In a show of bipartisanship outrage at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham castigated the CEOs of Big Tech companies for their failure to protect children online. Durbin, D-Ill., the panel’s chairman, didn’t hold back. At the Jan. 31 hearing, he alleged that the CEOs of… -
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Skewed News
On CNN, a “reporter” interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris gushes: “I’m struck, just in your presence. Looking you in the eye, with your passion …” Really? Even Harris looked embarrassed. My new video shows how the mainstream media treat conservatives and libertarians differently. We shouldn’t be surprised. Reporters overwhelmingly lean Democrat. A survey by The… -
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Time’s Up: 3 Reasons to Ditch TikTok
In 2022, President Joe Biden signed an act banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on all federal government devices. But on Sunday, Biden’s presidential campaign shared a TikTok video on the platform. Biden appeared on the social media platform for the first time in a 27-second video answering a few questions… -
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Senate Will ‘Pay for It’ If It Doesn’t Act on Mayorkas Impeachment, Rep. Mark Green Says
The House on Tuesday voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is not expected to vote to remove him from office. “There isn’t a whole lot of power we have,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said of House members’ ability to push the Senate… -
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Why Did Fani Willis Threaten the Wife of Her Lover With Prosecution?
Thursday in Atlanta, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will hold a hearing on the merits of a motion to disqualify the elected district attorney of Fulton County, Fani Willis, from the Trump-related racketeering cases. For the reasons we explain below, this is not a difficult decision. He should grant the motion and remove Willis, her… -
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Climate Activists Block Major DC Highway, Vandalize Case Holding Constitution
With the slogan “Love in Action,” climate activists blocked a major commuter route for the nation’s capital and vandalized a case protecting the U.S. Constitution in honor of Valentine’s Day. Declare Emergency, a climate extremism group, kicked off its February “week of action” Tuesday by blocking the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which runs along the… -
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NCAA Official Resigns Over Transgender Takeover of Women’s Sports: This Is ‘Massive … Authorized Cheating’
Whatever hopes people had for a new day at the NCAA have officially died out. A year into Charlie Baker’s reign and the wildfire threatening to burn down women’s sports still rages—no thanks to the unsympathetic man at the helm. If anything, Mark Emmert’s successor has proven to be coldly indifferent to the plight of… -
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Internal Documents Shed Light on Biden Administration’s Plan to Impose DEI on Pentagon-Run Schools
The Department of Defense agency that runs schools for military children approved a contract worth up to nearly $2 million for extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion programming and consultations, according to a copy of the contract obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation from the Functional Government Initiative. The Department of Defense Education Activity… -
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Our Military Is Weak. That Should Scare You.
Our government isn’t serious about defending the United States and its interests. In fact, it has fallen woefully short in carrying out this sacred obligation. I know this sounds harsh, but as we’ll see, the government’s own numbers prove the point. That our military is weak is not an indictment of the men and women… -
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Understated by Feds, Through-the-Roof Housing Inflation Is Crushing Would-Be Homeowners
Business headlines say that inflation is down, yet countless Americans are struggling, particularly with finding somewhere affordable to live. How do we reconcile these seemingly contradictory notions? First, lower inflation means prices are rising slower, but still rising. Second, housing inflation is being undercounted by official government metrics as much as 4-to-1. The consumer price… -
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LGBTQ Glitter Destroys the Spirit of Ash Wednesday
Public universities, take note: Celebrating LGBTQ “Glitter Ash Wednesday” is the opposite of inclusive. A public university in America’s heartland has effectively endorsed a divisive religious message: that celebrating Ash Wednesday is compatible with LGBTQ “pride” to the extent that Christians should wear on their foreheads ashes mixed with glitter. Contrary to the university’s suggestion,… -
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Hell, No: Federal Court Banishes Idaho Satanists’ Abortion Lawsuit
In June of 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade and clarified that there was no constitutional right to abortion. Within minutes of the court’s ruling, hard-line liberals across the nation were howling about restricted access to abortion and devising new and novel ways…