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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a bill barring biological males who identify as females from participating in female sporting events sponsored by public institutions and vowed not to back down to pressure from the NCAA amid threats to pull tournaments from states that enact such legislation. DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1028, also known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, in Jacksonville. Among other things, the bill bars trans-identified biological males who identify as female from competing in women’s and girls' sports offered by public institutions. The new law requires that intramural, intercollegiate, interscholastic and club athletic teams...

Houston-area doctor at center of controversial coronavirus cure video doubles down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOABdjrBRfI Look who was right...

The idea that value comes from labor is simply untenable.The Chief Executive Officers of the nation would be justified in singing along with the Coasters’ 1950s rock and roll song “Why’s everyone pickin’ on me?” (Officially known as “Charlie Brown.”)Needless to say, Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the pack, as per usual, baying for some CEO “blood;” well, money. In his latest initiative he is on the warpath against CEO salaries. The Senator from Vermont (Socialist) wants to limit them to 50 times the amount paid to the median worker in their corporations.Nonsense on a StickWhy 50 times and not...

Why is the House minority leader more concerned about what Democrats think? Kevin McCarthy’s mouth does two things: it kisses Donald Trump’s hand and it emits denouncements of his constituents. After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently likened what she considers COVID-19-based discrimination to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, the House minority leader swooped down bearing talons of condemnation. ‘Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling,’ he wrote. ‘Let me be clear: the House Republican Conference condemns this language.’ Whatever you might think of Greene’s comments, it’s...

A North Carolina county is banning Coca-Cola vending machines in public office buildings under its purview as a response to corporate left-wing activism. The commissioner leading the effort acknowledged that “Yes, we are trying to cancel Coca-Cola. To use their tactics against them.” Boycotts traditionally have been part of the progressive toolbox, but conservatives are increasingly receptive to adopting a similar technique to send a message to virtue-signaling corporations and their politics-pushing executives.

'When you say, ‘Just wear the mask,’ you clearly have no understanding of early childhood development,' Kate Bossi told CBS Boston after her arrest.Kate Bossi and Jessica Williams aren’t your typical fire-breathing-revolutionaries. Bossi is a Sunday school teacher and a grandmother. Williams is all of 5’2” and has two school-age children. These two New Hampshire women join a growing number of ordinary Americans confronting draconian and confusing COVID diktats still imposed by governments and businesses. Police arrested Bossi at a public meeting of the Timberlane Regional School Board on May 20 because she wasn’t wearing a mask. In a video...

Like most race-baiters, “President” Joe Biden has to go back into the past, in this case to the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, 100 years ago, to shows us how racist America is. The truth is that racism is alive and well in the U.S.A. today, but not in the way Biden and the leftist media want to talk about. Remember in 2016 when an 83-year-old black woman in Georgia, Dorothy Dow, was beaten by a group of rednecks, had both her arms broken, was set on fire and later died of her injuries? No, you don’t remember because Ms....

Well, actually there hasn't been any coverage in the NY Times yet, at least according to this Google Search:site:nytimes.com fauci emailIf the NY Times doesn't cover it, did it really happen? Is Fauci guilty of anything?ML/NJ

A gang member and double murderer convicted in the shooting and killing of two teenagers at a party in Los Angeles more than thirty years ago is set to be released from San Quentin on Monday. Howard Elwin Jones has been imprisoned at San Quentin state prison since 1991 for the December 1988 shooting and killing of 18-year-old Chris Baker and another boy at a party in Rowland Heights. Jones was denied parole in 2015 and 2017 but at his third parole hearing in February, he was found to be suitable for parole by the state at a hearing that...

NEW ORLEANS — Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) for his upcoming re-election bid, while also taking aim at the state’s other Republican senator. Trump’s endorsement comes one day after Kennedy announced that he was launching his re-election campaign as U.S. Senator from Louisiana. In his announcement, Kennedy echoed the former president’s campaign slogan. “Five years ago, I made a promise, a promise that I took seriously. I told you that I would work to put our country back on track and make America great again,” Kennedy wrote. Trump’s endorsement said Kennedy was “the real deal”...

If there's one thing the pandemic taught us, it's the power of a well-stocked pantry. One simple ingredient can be the game-changer to make a quick pantry meal feel as well thought-out as Sunday night supper. From shrimp to seaweed, here are the dried staples your favorite chefs always have on hand at home.

HIDALGO, Texas (Border Report) — As a way to boost the local economy while border travel restrictions remain, the South Texas border city of Laredo is soliciting Mexican nationals to fly in for COVID-19 vaccinations, and then hoping they’ll stay awhile to shop and explore. During a visit with a congressional delegation to the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat whose hometown is Laredo, announced that the city has been engaged in a tourism campaign to attract Mexicans who need coronavirus shots.

Cruise NewsPorts Latest Cruise Update on CDC Approvals and Florida Lawsuit Latest update on the CDC cruise ship approvals and the Florida lawsuit to get cruises resumed immediately. The CDC has gotten its fair share of criticism in the last 15 months, in some cases, for a good reason. However, there is no denying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is firing on all cylinders to get cruise lines sailing as soon as possible. Several cruise lines have gotten permission to sail on voyages with vaccinated guests in the last few weeks. At the same time, the same...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) picked two dates on the calendar — June 1 and July 1 — to repeal the remaining coronavirus restrictions, but she appeared to be leaving the door open on whether she will stick to the final one. On Tuesday, Whitmer was asked if she will potentially alter her order lifting remaining orders on masks, crowds, and restaurant capacity limits July 1, and she left the door open, WOOD TV reported.

Alpha Males Are the New Feminists American feminism has moved beyond merely missing the point to actively harming women.Two years ago, I sat bewildered as my husband—sports watcher, gun owner, burger griller—defended his fervent belief that women’s sports should exclude biological men against my most rabid feminist friend, who replied with some variation of transwomen are women over and over. My friend took my confused silence for a betrayal of what she believed were our shared feminist values—but so did my husband. “I’m more of a feminist than you are,” he remarked to me before bed that evening, not without...

It would be an understatement to say I am not a fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci. For months beginning in Spring 2020, I have written about features of the COVID-19 pandemic management that seemed either inconsistent with current research, in opposition to the data coming from other countries, or completely divorced from the traditional management of a respiratory virus. My lockdown objections were on record, starting with my governor’s first stay-at-home order in Georgia. Then a glaring error in the entire lockdown thesis emerged in September. A doctoral candidate in epidemiology from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, Ronald...

Democrats in the General Assembly have managed to give every explanation imaginable for why you have to pay more — during an economic crisis — for what should have been a top spending priority for Colorado lawmakers over the last decade. They’ve done a fine job at gaslighting the people of Colorado into believing that not only is there no other solution to funding our roads and bridges than Senate Bill 260, but that the shortage of funds we’re experiencing today is indeed your fault. It’s not the only solution, and it is not your fault that our roads and...

While critical race theory training is pitched as a way to ensure 'equity' in the classroom, in truth, it’s far more sinister.As several states move to ban toxic critical race theory from indoctrinating students, the state of Washington is leaning in. The race-obsessed framework isn’t relegated to schools in Seattle, where you’d expect a victim-centered ideology like critical race theory to flourish. Thanks to the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature, a trio of bills just signed into law mandates critical race theory training for all public school teachers. Another even requires training for medical students, teaching them it’s as essential to be...

A private security firm hired a high-ranking U.S. Secret Service agent as CEO one week after he ran an intervention on Hunter Biden amid an alleged drug and prostitute binge at a Los Angeles hotel room. “Press releases by a private security firm published a week after the text exchange with Hunter announced the agent left the Secret Service after a 25-year career and joined the firm as CEO,” writes the Daily Mail. The Washington Examiner provided more details. “One week after the incident, a private security firm released a press release saying [Robert] Savage, [the supervising agent of the...

Remember when we used to be able to make ethnic and racial jokes? There was a time when humor was a major source of social engagement between people, who enjoyed laughing at themselves and the stereotypes attributed to them. In other words, they weren't so sensitive that they couldn't see the humor in a few innocuous manifestations of witty dialogue. My old buddy, Leroy Spivey, a cop I worked with in a radio car for a few years, didn't have any hang-ups about racial comedy. In addition, he wasn't so narcissistic about his color that he wouldn't get a kick...