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With Appeals Court Ruling, Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Federal Employees Remains on Hold
In what only can be categorized as a win for liberty and a pushback against an authoritarian president who asserts power he doesn’t have, a federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal employees. Judge Andrew Oldham’s opinion Thursday, joined in whole or in part… -
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Toll of Border Crisis on States: Florida
This is Part 3 in a series about the toll that the federal government’s intentional promotion of illegal immigration is taking on the states and their citizens. (Read Part 1 (national overview) here and Part 2 (Texas) here.) As the border crisis continues across every congressional district in the country, Florida is leading the charge to fight back… -
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‘If You’re Not Getting Attacked … You’re Doing Something Wrong,’ Libs of TikTok Creator Says
Chaya Raichik, creator of the Libs of TikTok account on Twitter, says she has “had to file a few police reports from threats” that she received. “That’s really part of the reason why I was anonymous to begin with, because as I started exposing all this stuff, the Left started coming after me, and their… -
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Church Fights in Federal Court for Right to Defend Itself With Firearms
Gun safety and the reach of the Second Amendment is a controversial point of law in our modern culture. While the Supreme Court has issued recent rulings on the Second Amendment, states often continue to enact laws that contradict those rulings, prompting individuals or organizations to have to fight back in litigation. One such example… -
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DeSantis Joins the Fight for Sanity Against the Foreign Policy Blob
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ written statement to Tucker Carlson heard around the world earlier this month on the Russia-Ukraine war has caused nothing short of a full-scale meltdown from the arrogant consistently wrong-thinking, military-industrial complex-addled band of bipartisan dunderheads who collectively comprise the American ruling class’s foreign policy “blob.” The reality is that the governor… -
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This New Congresswoman Wants to Hold ‘Cruel’ DC Abortionist Accountable
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wants to hold a Washington, D.C. abortionist accountable for potential crimes he may have committed aborting babies in his Foggy Bottom abortion clinic. Luna sat down with The Daily Signal on Friday for a wide-ranging interview on her first few weeks in Congress, what… -
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NPR Lays Off 100 Employees, Cancels Shows as Advertiser Revenue Declines
In a move to preserve its very existence, National Public Radio cut four of its major podcasts and 10% of its workforce on Thursday, a major reduction not seen since 2008. The reasoning behind the decision seems to be a drop in ad revenue from the podcasts “Invisibilia,” “Louder Than a Riot,” “Everyone and Their… -
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Keeping Neighborhoods Safe Requires Appropriate Criminal Sentences
Public safety must be a top consideration whenever someone is proposing or discussing changes to the nation’s criminal codes, whether federal, state, or local. Unfortunately, too many today have bought into the twin myths that our criminal justice system is systematically racist (it’s not) and that America has a mass incarceration problem (it doesn’t). Heritage… -
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2 New GOP State Attorneys General Stand Up to Trial Lawyers
At the end of 2021, I wrote a legal memorandum, “Using Public Nuisance Law to ‘Solve’ the Opioid Crisis Sets a Dangerous Precedent.” In it, I wrote about some flaws with, and the risks of expanding the use of, public nuisance theories of liability that were and are being pursued to attack the opioid problem. … -
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4 Takeaways as Lawmakers Probe Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Efforts
President Joe Biden has extensively promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion as the focus of government agencies, including the Defense Department and its armed services. The House Armed Services Committee held a subcommittee hearing Thursday to address whether these programs are making the military stronger or actually are wasting resources, creating more division, and contributing to… -
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House Democrats Unanimously Opposed ‘Parents Bill of Rights.’ It Passed Anyway
House Democrats unanimously opposed the Republican-led "Parents Bill of Rights," legislation that would require schools to inform parents if they encourage or promote children's transgender transition attempts. The Parents Bill of Rights Act still passed on Friday, though every Democrat and five Republicans voted against it. Those five Republicans were Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken… -
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Disruption of Judge’s Stanford Speech Looms Over Collegiate Affirmative Action Court Cases
James Piereson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, on Wednesday argued in Newsweek that the recent Stanford Law School tantrum may have “blown up” the Supreme Court cases challenging racial preferences at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The Supreme Court has permitted universities to use racial preferences in admissions on the theory… -
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70 Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Border. Real Numbers Are ‘Likely Much Higher,’ Congressman Says
The number of individuals on America’s terrorist watch list encountered on America’s borders is growing. Since the start of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol has encountered 70 illegal aliens who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, also referred to as the terrorist watchlist, between ports of entry. The majority, 69, have been encountered on… -
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Why DeSantis Is In Favor of Banning TikTok
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks the Chinese-owned app TikTok is a “security risk” and is in favor of banning it. “I would. I think so. I think it’s a security risk, they are harvesting so much data on our citizens,” DeSantis replied when asked if he would ban the app during an exclusive interview… -
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Democrats’ Boycotts of Texas, Arizona Field Hearings on Illegal Immigration Inexcusable
All 15 of the Democrats on a House committee last week boycotted a field hearing on the crisis at our southern border, aptly held in Texas for the express purpose of focusing lawmakers’—and national—attention on the out-of-control problem of illegal immigration. Worse, the March 15 hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee in Pharr,… -
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I’ll Continue to Block Biden’s Nominees Until Pentagon Stops Facilitating Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Federal law permits the U.S. military to only provide abortions in very narrow circumstances: rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother. Yet, the Biden administration has turned our Department of Defense into an abortion travel agency. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did it using a memo—without congressional approval. >>> Grassroots Army Backs Senator’s… -
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After Facing Torture From Chinese Communist Party, Uyghur Muslim Shares Her Story and Calls for Action
Sterilization, electric shock torture, and brainwashing are hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the Uyghur people, according to prison camp survivors. “Genocide is occurring. This time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said at the start of the Select Committee on the CCP hearing Thursday night. Gulbahar… -
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Raccoon Dog: More Than Just Latest Deflection From COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory?
Perfect timing. Just as most of you (and the analysts at the Department of Energy and the FBI) thought that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory, along comes a March 16 report in The Atlantic. The report says that newly discovered genetic data from caged raccoon dogs (a mammal related to the fox) is the… -
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Citizen Activists ‘Weaponized’ Transparency, US Election Commissioner Testifies
Testifying to a congressional panel, a federal election official referred Thursday to citizens who seek public records as a “weaponization” targeting election workers. The subject of the hearing by the House Administration subcommittee on elections was election observers, activists whom Democrats and the corporate media have criticized heavily in recent years as threats to democracy. … -
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1 Year Later: DC Mayor Stonewalls Probe Into Aborted Babies’ Bodies
Almost one year after photos of aborted babies’ bodies from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic shocked the nation’s capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser is stonewalling media requests for information on how, exactly, abortionist Cesare Santangelo ended those babies’ lives. The mayor’s reticence comes despite multiple requests for clarity and autopsies from Republican lawmakers concerned about whether…