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August 11, 2022

Survey: 80 Percent of Americans Believe U.S. Has Two-Tiered Justice System

A new poll by a highly respected and accurate pollster indicates that nearly 80 percent of Americans believe there is a two-tiered system of justice in the United States. According to The Daily Wire, the poll, formally titled the “National Issues...

August 11, 2022

California Teacher with Antifa Ties Paid Thousands to Resign

A California teacher connected to Antifa is receiving a massive payout from the school district for resigning, according to the Sacramento Bee. Project Veritas posted a video of Natomas Unified School District school teacher Gabriel Gipe saying he was working to push...

August 11, 2022

Levy Tops Connecticut GOP Field, Challenges Blumenthal in November

The picture for Connecticut's November general election cleared with Tuesday's primary. The Election Day turnout of 20.37% cast ballots to determine who qualifies for the November election for one U.S. Senate seat, five U.S. House seats, and the state's secretary of state...

August 10, 2022

Trump Pleads Fifth at Deposition with New York AG

Former President Donald Trump appeared for a deposition with the state attorney general of New York on Wednesday and pleaded the Fifth when confronted about his family's business practices. In a statement, Trump said he decided to invoke protection against self-incrimination...

August 10, 2022

Kevin McCarthy Vows DOJ Investigation After FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy vowed to investigate the Department of Justice should Republicans secure the House majority in the November midterms following the FBI raid on Mar a Lago.

August 10, 2022

Biden Admin Scraps Another Trump-Era Policy

The Biden administration has ended a program used to expel migrants to Mexico as they await immigration proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement Monday. The Trump-era policy, which is also known as “Remain in Mexico,”...

August 10, 2022

Commentary: A History Lesson for President Joe Biden

A nation emerging from a significant pandemic and an economic downturn awaited President Joe Biden in early 2021. President Warren G. Harding inherited a similar situation after winning the 1920 election in a landslide. But Harding overcame it by getting...

August 10, 2022

Top 10 Tough Votes Democrats Had to Take During Vote-a-Rama for Massive Spending Bill

During a "vote-a-rama" on their $739 billion reconciliation spending bill that has hundreds of billions for climate and health care programs, Democratic senators had to take a series of uncomfortable votes on hot-button issues — particularly tough for those representing...

August 10, 2022

Fed Study: Ending Pandemic Unemployment Aid Connected to ‘Substantial Rise’ in Employment

States that ended pandemic unemployment aid saw "a substantial rise" in employment, according to a recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The study, which used data from 46 states and Washington, D.C., found that "in the three...

August 10, 2022

Commentary: Unprecedented FBI Raid; Trump Calls It ‘Weaponization of the Justice System’

Mark the date 8/8. The American Republic became a Banana Republic on Monday in the eyes of many conservatives in the same way many liberals imagined the nation averting such a fate on 1/6.

August 10, 2022

Ex-Intel Chief Urged Trump to Fire FBI Director Wray in 2020

Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell is warning that the FBI is facing a "real crisis" from partisan tampering with investigations, revealing he actually urged then-President Donald Trump to fire Director Chris Wray back in 2020 when such...

August 10, 2022

Commentary: Associated Press Injects Woke Ideology into Its Stylebook

Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been a go-to manual for journalistic grammar and style at most media outlets. It lays out basic rules about grammar, punctuation, phrasing, and the like, intended to have universal applicability. In the past, it...

August 10, 2022

Report: Labor Productivity Dropped Most Since 1948

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new economic data Tuesday showing the sharpest quarterly decline in labor productivity since 1948. BLS reported a 4.6% decrease in labor productivity in the second quarter of this year as the economy shrank...

August 9, 2022

Court Rules Congress Can Obtain Trump’s Tax Returns One Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid

One day after FBI agents raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service must hand over the former president's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

August 9, 2022

Mom Sues School District to Open Antiracism Meetings, as Stifled Dissenters Gain Wins over Educrats

The Rhode Island mother who got herself sued by teachers unions for trying to shine a light on public school curricula is now waging her own legal fight for public access to "secret meetings" about "equity" for students who are...

August 9, 2022

Commentary: Long-Term Study Finds That Higher Corporate and Personal Taxes Lower Real GDP

by Ross Pomeroy One of the main planks of President Biden and congressional Democrats’ agenda is making corporations and high-earning Americans “pay their fair share” through higher taxes. But a recently published analysis in the journal SAGE Open delving into sixty years of...

August 9, 2022

Survey Shows Inflation Affecting College Students’ Ability to Take Classes

A new survey shows that 1 in 4 college students have to drop classes due to high tuition rates and rising inflation. The survey of over 1,000 college students was done by Intelligent.com and showed that nearly 1 in 4 students would be forced...

August 9, 2022

Illegal Immigrant Faces Murder and Kidnapping Charges in Alabama

The alleged kidnapper of a 12-year-old girl in Alabama was a previously deported illegal alien, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday. José Paulino Pascual-Reyes, 37, who was arrested for alleged kidnapping...

August 9, 2022

Commentary: The Foreign-Donor Loophole

With so much recent finger-pointing in Washington over foreign influence in U.S. elections, it seems as if lawmakers would be doing everything they could to try to close loopholes that allow illegal political donations from China, Russia, and other overseas...

August 9, 2022

Amazon Newest Acquisition Expands Its Robot Artificial Intelligence Presence in Your Home

Amazon and iRobot signed an agreement Thursday under which Amazon will acquire iRobot, supporting the online retail giant’s ambitions to solidify its foothold on smart home technology, according to The Wall Street Journal. iRobot makes the popular home-cleaning product Roomba,...

August 9, 2022

LGBT Activist’s Study About Transgender ‘Social Contagion’ Falls Apart Under Scrutiny

A study purporting to debunk the theory that social contagion contributes to transgender identity has several fundamental flaws, according to experts who reviewed the study. The study — ‘Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents in...

August 9, 2022

Commentary: Electric Car Drivers May Not Be Pumped over Privacy-Jolting Mileage Taxes

The environmental impact of electric cars may still be unknown, but leaders are growing concerned about the threat they pose to the financing of the nation’s highway system. Because freeways and bridges are funded, in large part, through federal and...

August 9, 2022

Commentary: The Decline and Fall of Newspapers

A few years ago, you would have unfolded your newspaper and read opinion and analysis like this. Those days are gone. Today, most of us get our news and commentary online, perhaps supplemented by network or cable television, although TV...

August 9, 2022

Michigan AG Nessel Seeks Special Prosecutor in 2020 Election Probe

Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking a special prosecutor to consider criminal charges against nine people who engaged in a “conspiracy” to gain access to voting machines while disputing the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The nine people include...

August 9, 2022

Commentary: Donald Trump’s 2015 Presidential Announcement Speech, Seven Years Later

Immigration. Trade. War. The GOP already has the formula it needs for sweeping victory in this fall’s midterm elections. Republicans just need to follow it. Donald Trump showed the way. His presidential announcement speech in 2015 was a masterpiece of...

August 9, 2022

Biden and Fried Approve Tampa Christian School’s Lunch Money Application After Lawsuit

The Biden administration and Florida Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried approved the lunch money application for Grant Park Christian Academy in Tampa just days after the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Christian school. The...

August 9, 2022

Axios Agrees to $525 Million Sale to Cox Enterprises

Axios agreed to sell to Cox Enterprises for an estimated $525 million, the companies announced on Monday. Cox Enterprises, a global media company with 50,000 employees, is Axios' most recent lead investor. Axios CEO and co-founder Jim VandeHei celebrated the...

August 9, 2022

‘May Violate Multiple State Laws’: Republican AGs Demand BlackRock Answer for Pushing ESG on State Pension Funds

Missouri Attorney General (AG) Eric Schmidt and 18 other Republican AGs are investigating BlackRock concerning the company’s push to place environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) standards on states’ pension funds, according to the AGs’ letter. The Republican AGs, including...

August 9, 2022

Hospitality Sector Set to Receive New Round of State Funding

The hospitality industry in Connecticut will be benefiting from new state funding. Restaurants, hotels, transportation agencies, and other businesses will receive a share of $30 million in grant funding, Gov. Ned Lamont said, under the Connecticut Hospitality Industry Support Program.

August 8, 2022

Trump Says His Mar a Lago Compound Has Been Raided by FBI: ‘Under Siege’

Former President Donald Trump on Monday evening issued a statement saying that FBI agents had raided his Florida estate in Mar a Lago, describing his home as being "under siege." "The are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful...

August 8, 2022

Olivia Newton-John Has Died

Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John died on Monday at her Southern California ranch at the age of 73, her family announced. "Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer....

August 8, 2022

U.S. Senate Passes Massive Tax and Spend Bill Targeting Carbon Emissions, Prescription Drug Costs, More

The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a $740 billion new taxing and spending bill that seeks to combat climate change and allow the government to control the price of prescription medications, among other things. No Republicans voted for the bill,...

August 8, 2022

Booming Jobs Report Masks Uptick in Men Leaving the Labor Force

Women’s employment increased markedly from June to July, but the total number of employed working-aged men actually dropped in that same time span according to a July jobs report released Friday. There were 170,000 fewer employed men in July than...

August 8, 2022

Commentary: The Evolving Style Sheets of Big Media Institutionalize Political Bias

Many publications provide their writers with “style sheets,” a list of dos and don’ts with respect to things like diction, punctuation, grammar, and linguistic etiquette. My personal list of “dos” includes the Oxford comma (apples, oranges, and pears: that last...

August 8, 2022

Democrats to Deny Free Lunches for Christian School That Won’t Support LGBT Mandates

The Biden Administration is preparing to engage in political persecution against a Christian school in Florida that will not accept the administration’s new pro-LGBTQ mandates, even though the school has already qualified for a religious exemption. According to the Washington Free...

August 8, 2022

Trump: ‘America Is on the Edge of an Abyss’

Donald Trump on Saturday delivered stinging rebukes of the Biden administration at the Dallas Conservative Political Action Conference, one of a continuing series of indications that the still-popular former president has set his sights on a return to the White...

August 8, 2022

Video Shows Children in Texas Taking Oath to be ‘Martyrs’ for Iran’s Supreme Leader

Avideo of kids at an Islamic center in Houston, Texas pledging their allegiance to the supreme leader of Iran is setting off alarm bells among experts, who are warning this has all the signs of the Iranian regime's global indoctrination...

August 8, 2022

Mortgage Applications See Increase for First Time in over a Month

Mortgage applications increased for the first time in over a month after a decrease in mortgage rates last week. According to a weekly survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage applications increased by 1.2% from last week, the first increase seen in five weeks.

August 8, 2022

Commentary: Federal Reserve’s False Assumptions Push the Economy into Recession

Based on its assumptions, the Federal Reserve is doing everything right by raising interest rates rapidly after years of easy money. It will certainly succeed in its goal of “cooling down” the economy. Unfortunately, the Fed’s basic assumptions are wrong,...

August 8, 2022

Possible Rule Change Could Refund Airline Passengers Who Experience Flight Problems

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a new rule this week requiring airlines to offer customers refunds if their flight is canceled or significantly changed. The change would require airlines to refund travelers if their flight's arrival or departure time...

August 8, 2022

Commentary: One State Went from Bottom to Top in Education Choice and Innovation

West Virginia has experienced a dramatic expansion of educational freedom over the past year, from the state legislature passing a near-universal Education Savings Account (ESA) program, called the Hope Scholarship, to loosening state compulsory school attendance laws for participants of learning pods...

August 8, 2022

Connecticut Invests in Infrastructure at Rocky Hill Facility

Veterans coming to Connecticut’s Rocky Hill campus will be seeing changes. Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday the state will be performing $5.1 million in infrastructure upgrades to the Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Hartford. The funding was approved at...

August 7, 2022

Indiana Legislature Passes First Post-Roe Ban on Most Abortions

The Indiana legislature on Friday passed a ban on abortion in the state, allowing exceptions only for rape and incest. The state House passed the measure on Friday after the Senate approved the legislation in late July, sending the ban...

August 7, 2022

Biden Admin Spend Up to $300K in Taxpayer Money to Boost LGBT ‘Social Acceptance’ in Botswana

The Biden administration is spending up to $300,000 in tax dollars to promote gay and transgender “social acceptance” in Botswana, according to a federal grant listing reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of State will award one U.S. organization...

August 7, 2022

Commentary: The Stigmatization of the Ordinary

Over 60 years ago, we were introduced to the idea of “the two cultures” in higher education—that is, the growing rift in the academy between the humanities and the sciences, a rift wherein neither side understood the other, spoke to...