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16 Members of Congress Call for Statue of Charlie Kirk in Capitol
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is championing an effort by members of Congress to place a statue of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot Wednesday, in the U.S. Capitol. The Florida congresswoman posted on the social media platform X a letter she and several other House members sent to Speaker of the… -
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Will Republicans Hand Dems a Major Health Care Concession?
Will Republicans in Congress hand Democrats a massive health care concession to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month? That’s a question that has Capitol Hill abuzz. As Congress faces an end-of-September deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is demanding that Republicans make… -
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Jean-Pierre Reveals How She Got Talking Points on Biden’s Mental Fitness
After defending former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office for more than two years, his White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told a House panel Friday that talking points for her press briefing binder were created by various White House advisers. However, she said, points relating to the 46th president’s mental acuity were handled… -
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Treasury Secretary Bessent Tells Miranda Devine Why Soros Funds Rogue Prosecutors, Sort Of
If no one supports crime, why do activists fund candidates for office who, once elected, implement policies that enable it? If anyone would know the answer, it should be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, earlier in his impressive career, worked closely with George Soros, the notorious funder of the rogue prosecutor movement. Over the past… -
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New York Times Issued Correction After Making False Claim About Charlie Kirk
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The New York Times issued a correction on Thursday after falsely accusing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk of making an antisemitic claim on his podcast. The New York Times falsely accused Kirk of stating on his podcast in 2023 that Jewish communities are “pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites” that they… -
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Senate Republicans Took the Easy Way Out
Why are unprecedented successes in the Senate reserved for Senate Democrats? For eight months, Senate Democrats successfully obstructed dozens upon dozens of President Donald Trump’s political nominees. Senate Republicans let them do it. The Democrat obstruction will now likely come to an end because the Senate deployed the “nuclear option” on Thursday afternoon. By a… -
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Nonprofit Asks Court to Stop ‘War on American Energy’
A Louisiana nonprofit filed “friend of the court” briefs Thursday in two cases concerning what it calls “major distortions of the U.S. legal system to wage war on American energy production.” The Pelican Institute petitioned the Supreme Court to hear two cases its general counsel described as “politically motivated lawsuits … weaponized to rewrite history… -
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California’s AB 495 Erodes Parental Rights and Child Safeguards
A recent move by the California Senate Appropriations Committee has left families across the state concerned about their rights as the primary decision-makers in their children’s education. Just this week, as the Legislature neared the end of its session, the state Senate approved AB 495, a proposal that expands the list of those who can… -
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Schumer Threatens Government Shutdown, Something He, Other Senate Dems Decried as ‘Chaos’ in March
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said this week that he’s ready to force a federal government shutdown at the end of the month if Democrats don’t get the spending that they want. That would be a reversal in rhetoric after some Democrat senators, including Schumer, warned in March about the dire consequences of a… -
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Defensive Gun Uses Show Extraordinary Crimes Shouldn’t Erase Rights of Ordinary Gun Owners
After a transgender gunman targeted a Minneapolis Catholic school last month, killing two and wounding nearly two dozen others, gun control advocates predictably doubled down on their constant calls to impose every restriction imaginable on peaceable gun owners. As is usually the case, none of their default proposals would have saved a single life. And,… -
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‘We Got Him’: Arrest Made of Man Suspected of Assassinating Charlie Kirk
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed that police had arrested the man suspected in the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk. “We got him,” Cox said at the start of the Friday morning press conference. Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated at 12:23 p.m. Wednesday at a rally at Utah Valley University…. -
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A Society Paralyzed by the Presence of Evil
This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad in a red hoodie, sits behind Zarutska;… -
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‘Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be in the White House Without Charlie Kirk’
Conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s historic presidential victories, supporters recalled in the wake of his tragic assassination on Wednesday. “There is no question that Charlie’s work and his voice helped my father win the presidency,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on the social media platform X of the 31-year-old… -
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Senate Likely to Confirm Dozens of Trump Nominees After Going ‘Nuclear’
After months of a Democrat blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, Republicans in the Senate have gone nuclear. By a vote to 53-to-45 on Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted in favor of what is commonly referred to as the “nuclear option,” the creation of a new Senate rule by a simple majority vote, rather than… -
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Democrat Criticisms of Charlie Kirk Do Not Cease After Assassination
Democrats have joined in denouncing the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, but many have also used it as an opportunity to promote gun control, even while pushing back on attempts to honor him. “I believe that if we want to stop the scourge of violence in… -
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‘Nuclear’ Data Centers Right Outside Virginia’s Capital City?
Richmond, Virginia’s WTVR news viewers heard the headline this week that “Goochland County residents voice concerns over proposed data center and nuclear reactor development.” While anti-data center protests are growing more common, there’s also a proposed nuclear reactor site residents are going to have to contend with, too? Is lightning striking twice for residents outside… -
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‘Mainstream’ Liberal Media Covered Themselves in Shame After Kirk’s Assassination
The immediate response of many “mainstream” liberal journalists to the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk demonstrates why so many Americans loathe the corporate media. Many of the responses to Kirk’s killing on social websites like TikTok and Bluesky have been celebratory and downright evil. It’s ironic in a certain way that Bluesky had become such… -
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One Thing the Left Can Do If It Wants to Prove It Actually Opposes Political Violence
The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday, but if the SPLC is serious in opposing political violence, it should do one better: It should remove Turning Point USA from its “hate map,” which plots Kirk’s organization alongside Ku Klux Klan chapters. The FBI is… -
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Charlie Kirk Helped Save a Nobody in Need Who Could Do Nothing for Him: Me
Like many of you, I’ve been glued to my phone over the last 24 hours, poring over news updates and the articles and posts from friends sharing their memories of Charlie Kirk. Some of these are rich with articulate, highly descriptive prose, summarizing a phenomenal man whose impact we’ve only begun to see the fruits… -
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‘Professional Hit’? Some Lawmakers Speculate on Nature of Kirk’s Killing
As the investigation continues into the fatal shooting Wednesday of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, some congressmen say they think the killing might have been a “professional hit.” The investigation of the killing and the manhunt for the perpetrator are ongoing. The FBI recently released an image of a “person…
