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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Adds LGBTQ Strings to Foreign Agriculture Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cultivate the transgender ideology on a global scale using international farm-aid programs. That could mean attaching strings to international grants that the USDA doles out to support the Biden administration’s LGBTQ agenda, which President Joe Biden ordered in a presidential memorandum. The USDA’s Sub-Working Group for the Memorandum… -
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Was It Legal to Appoint Jack Smith in the First Place?
Was special counsel Jack Smith illegally appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and is his prosecution of former President Donald Trump unlawful? That is the intriguing issue raised in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by Schaerr Jaffe LLP on behalf of former Attorney General Ed Meese and two law professors, Steven Calabresi and Gary… -
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Mayorkas Says Over 85% of Illegal Aliens Are Released Into US Interior
More than 85% of the illegal aliens encountered at the border are released into the interior of the U.S., according to reports. Following a private meeting between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday, sources in the room told Fox News’ Bill Melugin that “Mayorkas admitted that… -
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As Debt Skyrockets, House Eyes New Budget Deal With Negligible Cuts
In May 2023, when then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy negotiated a debt limit deal that included spending limits, the gross national debt stood at just under $31.5 trillion. Conservatives in the House were deeply upset about the debt deal, which contained fraudulent gimmicks to get around the announced spending limits. Less than eight months… -
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Court Appears to Take Dim View of Trump’s Immunity Claim
Former President Donald Trump’s claim to presidential immunity from prosecution came under intense questioning Tuesday by a three-judge federal panel. Surrounded by high amounts of security and media due to the former president’s attendance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Tuesday to consider Trump’s appeal of U.S. District Court Judge… -
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Heritage Action Calls for Lawmakers to Oppose Spending Deal
The budget deal reached this past weekend between Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress fails to include real spending cuts or to secure the border, warns Ryan Walker, the executive vice president of Heritage Action for America. “The American people are begging Congress to secure the border and rein in the unprecedented government spending and… -
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Appeals Court Hits ‘Off’ Switch on Biden’s Dishwasher, Washing Machine Regulations
A federal appeals court on Monday shot down the Biden administration’s efforts to repeal existing regulations on dishwashers and clothes washers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a legal battle between 11 red states and the federal government over the Department of Energy’s efforts to impose energy- and water-efficiency standards… -
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Iran at Center of Middle East Conflict, but Biden Won’t Take Strategic Action, Expert Says
Hamas and Israel have been at war for three months. The Houthis are firing rockets at ships in the Red Sea. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israel. And internal violence is growing in Iran between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. As tension builds in the Middle East, the most common thread in the conflict is Iran,… -
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The Bizarre Case of a Missing Defense Secretary
These days, it’s not controversial to point out that on the Biden administration’s watch, the world has become far less stable and far more dangerous. The sudden and haphazard U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 surely emboldened our adversaries, given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months later. And Russia, despite failing to take Ukraine… -
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Carjackings in DC Doubled to a Staggering 959 in 2023
Our nation’s capital is a model of dysfunctional, clueless blue city governance. Nothing highlights that better than the explosion of crime—and especially carjackings—since 2020. The official 2023 year-end tally of carjackings in Washington, D.C., ended up being a staggering 959, twice the number of the previous year. There were 152 carjackings in 2019. That number… -
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A Real Woman Explains Why Ohio’s Governor Was Wrong to Veto Bill to Curb Transgenderism
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Friday issued an executive order prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors in his state and issued draft administrative rules on so-called gender-affirming care for minors and adults. DeWine’s directives came a week after his Dec. 29 veto of House Bill 68, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which would… -
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Trump Files Flurry of Motions Seeking to Dismiss Georgia Election Charges
Former President Donald Trump filed three motions Monday to dismiss his Georgia 2020 election case, including one claiming presidential immunity prevents his prosecution. The motions argue for dismissal based on due process grounds, double jeopardy and presidential immunity. The claims in Trump’s presidential immunity filing mirror those made in his bid to dismiss the federal indictment brought by special… -
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BOMBSHELL: 200 Undercover FBI Assets at US Capitol on Jan. 6, Congressman Estimates
A member of Congress investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol estimates the FBI had 200 undercover assets both inside and outside the building. “We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of… -
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Author Calls for Return to Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass’ Vision of Colorblindness
Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass were both dedicated to bringing about an America that was colorblind, Andre Archie says, but their work is being undermined. “When I say colorblind, it’s not naive at all,” says Archie, an author and professor at Colorado State University. “It speaks to a tradition that we find with… -
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Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims in Valley Forge Speech
President Joe Biden on Friday accused Donald Trump, his predecessor and the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, of wanting to be a dictator. Biden spoke at a community college about 15 miles east of Valley Forge, a historical site in the battleground state of Pennsylvania that Trump won in 2016 but lost in… -
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Diversity Ideology Persists at Harvard Despite President’s Departure
Numerous and compounding reasons led to Claudine Gay’s removal as president of Harvard University. Her departure, while a necessary first step, does not solve the problems that required her departure and that continue to plague Harvard and much of higher education. Gay was manifestly unqualified for the position, with only a fraction of the scholarly… -
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Supreme Court to Expedite Review of Colorado’s Unilateral Removal of Trump From State’s Ballot
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick him off the state’s ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Dec. 19 that Trump is ineligible to be on the state’s primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The… -
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In Texas, Cruz Celebrates Win to ‘Bring Manufacturing Back From China’
Sen. Ted Cruz is celebrating the passage of bipartisan legislation that stands to decrease America’s manufacturing dependence on China. The legislation cuts bureaucratic red tape to build or expand four bridges across the Rio Grande in Texas and “benefits national security, because it makes it easier to bring manufacturing back from China, either to… -
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How to Get Better Teachers in America’s Schools
Twenty years ago, when I was hiring teachers for the private K-12 school I founded, I knew better than to recruit certified teachers. From my previous work as a college history professor, I know that the people least prepared to teach a subject are education majors. Requiring an embarrassingly low minimum of credit hours to be certified… -
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Why This Redefinition of Infertility May Surprise Singles and Same-Sex Couples
Same-sex couples and singles, no matter their sexual orientation, now qualify as infertile. That is, at least, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, whose guidelines now redefine infertility to include anyone who needs “donor eggs, sperm, or embryo to conceive as a couple or individual.” You read that right: Under this official new…