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Two-Thirds of Californians Say They Are Considering Leaving the State
A new poll revealed that almost two-thirds of California residents have considered moving out of the state recently. The survey highlights mounting frustrations that Californians are feeling over their state’s policies related to escalating living costs, rising crime, increased political polarization, and parental rights concerns. The survey found that 40% of state residents say “they are somewhat… -
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Harvard Melts Down Over Threat to Affirmative Action
With the Supreme Court set to release a potentially monumental decision as early as this week ending racial preferences in college admissions, professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Education organized an alumni event on “Anticipating a Post-Affirmative Action World: Insights and Strategies for the Future.” Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, only two minutes of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Garland Impeachment ‘Not an Empty Threat,’ GOP Lawmakers Warn
A senior member of the House Judiciary Committee insists that impeachment is “not an empty threat” for Attorney General Merrick Garland, after two whistleblowers alleged that Garland and other Justice Department officials interfered with an IRS investigation of President Joe Biden’s son. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told “Fox & Friends” on Monday: “If it comes… -
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Justices Nix ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’ on Administration of Elections
Justices ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Moore v. Harper to reject the “independent state legislature theory,” the idea that legislatures have unrestricted power under the Constitution to administer federal elections without review from state courts. The Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s elections clause “does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set… -
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DHS Agency Pushes Online Censorship, Government Weaponization Panel Finds
A division of the Department of Homeland Security expanded its mission to censor and conduct surveillance in coordination with Big Tech firms, according to a report from a House Judiciary subcommittee. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, also known as CISA, colluded with private companies and other private groups to block online content, the House… -
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The Revolt in Russia, Explained
The Wagner Group, mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, revolted against the Kremlin over the weekend after its leader claimed the Russian military killed 2,000 of its fighters in Ukraine. Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation, explains that “the Wagner Group is essentially a private paramilitary… -
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SPLC Silent When Asked For Evidence the Lawyer Charged With Domestic Terrorism Didn’t Engage in Violence
A left-leaning Georgia prosecutor has stepped back from pursuing “Stop Cop City” rioters who violently attacked a police construction site in March, citing a difference in “prosecution philosophies” with Georgia’s attorney general and referencing a Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer who faces domestic terrorism charges in the incident. The SPLC did not respond when asked… -
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White House to Media Questions About Scandals: Let Them Eat Cupcakes
Scandal allegations are piling up for President Joe Biden. What’s the White House response been? Let them eat “Pride” cupcakes. Instead of answering difficult questions, White House staff decided it’s time to ignore or outright mock journalists looking for answers. White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates tweeted out a picture of “Pride” rainbow cupcakes… -
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‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming for Your Children’: 6 Scenes From NYC Pride Events
Editor’s note: This article includes offensive and explicit content. New York City held its 53rd Pride parade Sunday. Here are some of the scenes from that parade and related events shared on social media. 1. ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Coming for Your Children.’ In a clip that has gone viral on Twitter, marchers at… -
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Biden Admin’s Greatest Foe? ‘It’s the Moms, Stupid’
The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers and fathers. They stand athwart the administration’s mad dash to remake America, yelling, “Stop!” This much can be gleaned from recent events. First is last week’s announcement that Randi Weingarten,… -
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Attempt to Quantify Impact, Value of DEI at State Department Is an Epic Fail
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 6 informed us that former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, his department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, was leaving the post. Blinken credited her with “a series of other concrete, systemic accomplishments in [diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility].” We now have a two-year track record to assess the “concrete… -
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Jim Caviezel Slams Woke Media, Calls for Trafficking Whistleblowers To Step Up
WASHINGTON, D.C.—”Sound of Freedom” star Jim Caviezel believes that his new film will empower people to fight human trafficking worldwide, and perhaps even bring forward some courageous whistleblowers afraid to speak up until now. Caviezel and his co-actor Eduardo Verástegui, rumored to be pondering a presidential bid in Mexico, shared all this and more in… -
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COVID-19’s Origin: Only Deeper Probe Into Intelligence Data Will Finally Get Us to Truth
The Biden administration’s release Friday of a declassified nine-page intelligence report does not address COVID-19’s origins as either a Chinese lab leak or a natural occurrence. It does repeat previous reports showing divisions within the intelligence community on the key issue of COVID-19’s origins. Solving the mystery of COVID-19’s origins will depend on the… -
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Biden Border Chaos Eclipses Refugee Program
As the United Nations recognized World Refugee Day on June 20, the Biden administration used the fig leaf of refugee policy to distract from the millions of illegal aliens flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border under its parole programs. The U.N. recognized World Refugee Day with a statement estimating that there are 35.4 million refugees and… -
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How Crime Novel Became Reality for 8 Cities With Soros-Backed ‘Rogue Prosecutors’
Violent criminals are being given a “slap on the wrist” and released back onto the streets in eight cities across America, says author Charles “Cully” Stimson. Between the “defund the police” movement and the election of “[George] Soros’ bought-and-paid-for rogue prosecutors, crime exploded,” says Stimson, co-author of the new book “Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros… -
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Michigan’s Proposed ‘Green Energy’ Policy Threatens to Slam the Door on Manufacturing Renaissance
Michigan is on the rise once again. When we think manufacturing, we think Michigan. As one of America’s leading manufacturing states, it stands in the top third for economic outlook among all the United States, and it’s leading America’s industrial renaissance. Unfortunately, some Michigan lawmakers are pursuing a series of so-called green legislative efforts that… -
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‘SEVER EVERY TENTACLE’: Va. Senate Candidates Pledge to Probe SPLC’s Federal Ties Amid Attack on Moms for Liberty
Two leading Republican candidates in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race have pledged to investigate the federal government’s use of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing smear factory that recently put parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Scott Parkinson, former… -
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People ‘Assigned Female at Birth’ Are ‘Going to Be Dying,’ Pro-Abortion Activist Says 1 Year After Roe v. Wade Overturned
Pro-abortion activists gathered in Washington, D.C., Saturday on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade. “Without abortion access, women and girls, and people who are assigned female at birth, they are going to be dying,” Olivia Anderson said at the Women’s… -
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On 1st Anniversary of Roe’s Demise, Most Americans Want Some Limits on Abortion, Poll Finds
A majority of Americans support protections for unborn children and their mothers, a new poll conducted for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America shows. In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, 24 states have enacted pro-life protections for the unborn and their mothers, the pro-life group notes: Wyoming extended Medicaid… -
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Understanding the Difference Between Freedom and Liberty
Freedom and liberty. What is meant by these terms? Both refer to the quality of being free. But to be “free from” what and “free to do” what? Freedom and liberty are the first principles of conservatism and the last principles of the radical, progressive, socialist, Marxist, leftist (Democrat) ideology. I could ask 10 individuals…