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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 1, the Democrats’ sweeping election reform package. While many have focused on how the bill changes voting and voter registration, the bill also has major implications for free speech—which have largely gone unnoticed.

Babies were aborted alive, placed in fridge to harvest cell lines used in some vaccines: researcherThese babies were literally placed into the fridge alive and then stored between one and 24 hours until they could be dismembered.'February 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Cell lines derived from aborted babies used in the production or testing of various vaccines, including a number of COVID vaccines, most likely came from babies who were aborted alive, and according to the general practice as outlined in medical literature, may have been placed in a fridge while still living where they awaited dismemberment before having their organs...

Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 6 (SB6) on Tuesday that bans abortions unless the life of the mother is endangered. Supporters of the controversial bill hope it could force the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade, though opponents intend to block it before the law takes effect later this year, according to The Associated Press. “We must abolish abortion in this nation just as we abolished slavery in the 19th century – all lives matter,” said Republican state Sen. Jason Rapert, who is the bill’s sponsor. Hutchinson was at first reluctant to sign the bill because...

With no major labor reform since the 1930s, Democrats are seizing on the opportunity to strengthen workers' rights -- including their ability to unionize. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the PRO (Protect the Right to Organize) Act, the most pro-worker labor reform in decades, according to the bill’s sponsors, by a vote of 225-206. Though it faces an uphill battle in the 50/50 split Senate, President Joe Biden has said that labor reform is one of his administration’s top priorities. The House passed a version of the bill last year, but it was dead on arrival in the...

Hackers breached Verkada and accessed its customers' security cameras, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. They gained access to 150,000 cameras inside places such as Tesla, Cloudflare, hospitals, and jails. Some cameras let the hackers access Verkada customers' separate corporate networks.

White liberals are the worst. We all know this. These are the college-educated folks who have declared themselves the political correctness police and protectors of communities of color. They see racism everywhere. They see oppression everywhere. They see problematic societal trends everywhere. Mr. Potato Head was diced up by this crew. Pepe Le Pew has been branded a rapist. If you think this is insane and not really helping normal Americans, you’d be right. Outside of the cities, no one cares about any of this stuff. White liberals are keen on another action item: defunding the police. It’s part of...

ountries should not require travelers to present so-called “vaccine passports” for international travel during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as such a demand would be unfair to nations with limited vaccination capabilities, a senior World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official said Monday. “Vaccination is just not available enough around the world and is not available certainly on an equitable basis,” Dr. Michael Ryan, director of the W.H.O. Health Emergencies Program, said at a press briefing March 8. Ryan said the W.H.O., the United Nations’ (U.N.) official health body, advises against the use of coronavirus vaccine passports for now while there are...

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that getting “big, bold change done” is the most important priority of Democrats, and that he hopes “that now that Republicans have seen we can do it without them, that they’ll realize they ought to try to work with us.” Schumer said, “I always say, we want to work with Republicans where we can. But we have to get big, bold change done, and that is our number one priority. I have a hope. I’m always an optimist, you know that, Anderson, that...

Bari Weiss has written an outstanding piece for City Journal about the ways in which wokeness has moved from universities to some of the country’s most exclusive prep schools. After speaking with parents and teachers at schools on both the east and west coast, Weiss concludes the woke revolution is already over. In fact, parents at these schools, aware their kids could be kicked out for any reason, are afraid to be identified as skeptics of critical race theory. This fear of being accused (or worse having your children blacklisted) is already so great that not a single person Weiss...

My colleague Jeff Charles wrote a great article on how the Nevada Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) have taken over the Democrat Party in the state, and why the traditional leadership chose to resign.Hi new followers! Yesterday DSA members Judith Whitmer, Jacob Allen, Dr. Zaffar Iqbal & Ahmad Adé took over @nvdems. We've been hard at work after @BernieSanders's caucus win, organizing for power wherever we can. Let us tell you a little bit about what we've been up to 1/11— Las Vegas DSA (@LasVegasDSA) March 7, 2021The far-left socialist wing of the Democratic Party just scored a significant victory...

The Chinese foreign affairs minister has offered to vaccinate all Olympians who will participate in the Beijing Winter Olympic game next year, despite the deaths of Hongkongers who received a China-made COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine diplomacy is one of the main agendas that the Chinese regime has pursued in the past months. However, the efficacy and safety of China-made vaccines is questioned even by Chinese doctors. The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry Wang Yi spoke about China’s vaccine diplomacy at a March 7 press conference during the Two Sessions meeting—the regime’s most important annual conference. He said that China has exported COVID-19...

First, New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon roasted her primary opponent Gov. Andrew Cuomo during an address to the annual Legislative Correspondents Association dinner last May. “Vote for the homo, not for the Cuomo,” Nixon said during her remarks. The line was a reference to the 1977 New York City mayoral campaign which pitted Ed Koch against Cuomo’s father, Mario. During the campaign, flyers appeared with the line saying “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo,” which Koch had blamed on the Cuomo camp.

petition has amassed nearly 1100 signatures, urging people to boycott Martin Stewart's band, ‘Another Filthy Weekend’ after he confronted police naked and covered in blood.A crazed Strathaven dog owner stabbed and tried to strangle his pet Labrador while claiming he was God and the world was about to end. Martin Stewart’s horrified partner tried desperately to intervene as he hung the helpless dog with its lead from a door handle. He then stabbed the pooch twice in the stomach before turning the knife on himself, stabbing his neck. Stewart – naked and covered in blood – then confronted police...

The Nigerian archbishop earlier rebuked members of the conservative Anglican Church in North America for what he called a “subtle capitulation to recognise and promote same-sex relations among its members." In a rare public condemnation of a fellow Anglican primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has condemned comments by the archbishop of Nigeria claiming that homosexuality is a “deadly virus” which should be “radically expunged and excised." Welby, the leader of the global Anglican church, said the comments by Archbishop Henry Ndukuba are "unacceptable and dehumanising." “I completely disagree with and condemn this language. It is unacceptable. It dehumanises...

‘Does the Church still have the freedom to have a moral teaching that is not modeled on civil legislation?’March 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Renaissance catholique, a French lay association of traditional-minded Catholics, has been indicted for calling “to discriminate against a group of people because of their sexual orientation.” That offense is included in the list of “racist” crimes in the French penal law dealing with media offenses. The whole process was initiated by “Stop Homophobie,” an association that has the ear of the authorities, and it is not simply a show of impatience with a private association that has...

In the first independent, non-governmental legal examination of China’s human rights offenses against the Uyghur population, the think tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy found that the Chinese government is responsible for “committing genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” The 1948 Genocide Convention “is an instrument of international law that codified for the first time the crime of genocide,” according to the United Nations’ website. The convention was the “first human rights treaty” that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted. Its purpose was...

Multiple sources within the Russian State Duma have recently proposed new restrictions on the promotion and performance of abortion. Speaking at the recent United Russia conference dedicated to the legal and legislative aspects of supporting families and family values, Deputy Vladimir Krupennikov proposed to strengthen the punishment for the promotion of abortion, reports DumaTV. “I believe it’s necessary to propose a number of legislative initiatives aimed at establishing responsibility for the dissemination of information propagandizing abortion and strengthening the legal responsibility for advertising, forcing, or inclining towards abortion, as well as advertising the safety of abortions,” the Deputy said. Krupennikov...

A Engineer for the maker of the shuttle’s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, worried that cold weather might affect them. He was right.Allan J. McDonald, an engineer who on a chilly January morning in 1986 tried to stop the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, citing the possible effect of the cold on its booster rockets, and who, after it broke apart on liftoff, blew the whistle when government officials tried to cover up his dissent, died on Saturday in Ogden, Utah. He was 83. The cause was complications of a recent fall, his daughter Meghan McDonald...

Pro sports lost an incredible amount of money last year, with each league losing revenue in every area from fan support to sponsorship. According to Forbes, to date, the pro sports leagues have lost a combined $14.1 billion since the world ground to a halt just over a year ago. Not only did the leagues lose billions of dollars in revenue, but the teams themselves also lost a percentage of what they are worth, the magazine added. “Even the value of sports teams, one of the most reliable long-term investments for billionaires, began to creak from the strain. NHL franchise...

The lawsuit says two boys were wearing acne face masks in a photo when they were falsely accused of posing in blackface.Two California students and their parents are suing a private Catholic high school for $20 million, claiming that the boys were forced to withdraw after they were falsely accused of wearing blackface in a photo. The lawsuit says that the students, identified as A.H. and H.H., were actually wearing acne face masks and they were pushed out of St. Francis High School in Mountain View without a proper investigation by school officials. The incident took place in August 2017...