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Democrats are defending Roe v. Wade as the foundation of women’s rights, but their bill to codify Roe into law lacks the word “woman,” and only mentions the word “women” in the title. The 2021 bill is, in many ways, the bare, exposed id of today’s Democratic Party. It is filled with the kind of language that turns off voters in the vast middle of the electorate — Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And that is why, now that the Supreme Court leak has pushed abortion to the front of the political debate, and with midterm elections on the way, Democrats...

Will Americans continue to permit an order that treats certain forms of lawlessness as untouchable, even praiseworthy? Will America’s streets witness a replay of 2020’s “summer of love” if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade? Will storefronts be boarded up once more, civic buildings barricaded against firebombs? Will the militant wing of the Democrats treat the nation to another orgy of looting and violence, all while the social-welfare wing winks at the barbarians or even goads them on to still greater barbarism? The answer is almost as important as the fate of unborn life. At stake in these...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 20The Judgment of the Dead 11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) said there will be “real concern about how out of touch the Republicans are” on abortion, “which raises the issues for voters, if they won’t listen to you on this, are they going to listen to you on anything, on the need to lower the cost of prescription drugs and stand up to big pharma, or lower the price of gas by standing up to big oil?”

The U.S. Navy removed three controversial books on racism from its Professional Reading Program list, according to a May 6 press release from the Chief of Naval Operations. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday released an updated list of the Navy’s reading list, which excludes three controversial titles included in the 2021 reading list. CNO’s 2021 version included titles such as Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist,” Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow,’ and Jason Pierceon’s “Sexual Minorities and Politics.”

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Mehta is not the only judge on the D.C. District Court to express open contempt for Trump and his supporters—but he is by far the most powerful. Judge Amit Mehta sounded perturbed, to say the least. The D.C. District Court judge handling numerous January 6 legal matters, including the Justice Department’s high-profile prosecution of the Oath Keepers, flatly dismissed concerns by defense attorneys that the first trial in the case will coincide with public hearings held by the January 6 Select Committee later this year. “Even if Congress is on the steps of the courthouse reading the [final] report, I...

Tucker's four decades in Washington...have been well documented. But less well known are his early years and how they shaped him: his bohemian artist mother, who abandoned her young family and cut Tucker and his brother out of her will; the Rhode Island prep school where he met his future spouse; and his formation into a contrarian debater who could both amuse and infuriate his audience with his attention-getting tactics. [Very long read]

Americans want to honor the veterans and service members who sacrifice so much to defend our freedom. That’s why we have holidays like Memorial Day. Yet members of our military deserve more than speeches and parades. They deserve parental choice in education. “[W]hile our service members fight for our freedoms abroad, too many military families are denied education freedom at home,” according to former deputy U.S. Secretary of Education Mitchell Zais. And he should know: Zais served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and retired as a brigadier general. The lack of parental choice in education hits military families...

FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, May 8, via BALTIMORE Friday, May 9. Shortly before noon to-day, the Monitor, Naugatuck, Seminole, Susquehannah, Dacotah and San Jacinto, in the order in which they are named, steamed up towards Sewall's Point, Capt. LARDNER, of the Susquehannah, in command of the expedition. As soon as within range, fire was opened with shot and shell against Sewall's Point. Most of the shots were good ones. It was nearly half an hour before a reply was made from the Point. The Rip Raps next opened fire, and then the Naugatuck for the first time. Several shots were fired...

Irony doesn't begin to explain why pro-choice activists chose Mother's Day weekend to picket the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts, who appear ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. In an age when there appear to be fewer consequences for violating moral or statutory laws, demonstrators and protesters outside the Supreme Court building seem to have violated at least two federal laws. In the abortion-at-anytime Biden administration, which refuses to enforce immigration laws, it seems unlikely these laws will be enforced. Here are excerpts from two federal laws should the Justice Department need to be reminded...

A new Pennsylvania Governor race primary poll has State Senator Doug Mastriano with a 10 point lead over Lou Barletta. Mastriano led the newly-released Trafalgar Poll with 27.6%, followed by Barletta at 17.6%. Dave White finished third with 15.1% and William McSwain received 14.4%. Jake Corman received 5.3%, Melissa Hart received 3.7%, Joe Gale received 3%, and Charlie Gerow received 2.1%. Just over 11% of voters said they were still undecided in the May 17 Republican primary. The poll was conducted between May 6-8 with 1,080 likely Pennsylvania Republican voters with a 2.99% margin of error. More than 82% of...

The news of the past few weeks has been all aflutter over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The main issue for discussion has been, what does this mean for the future of free speech in the American public square? That’s an important issue, to which I don’t have the answer. I think that there are reasons for both optimism and pessimism. More on this issue later. A second issue is what Musk’s Twitter venture signals as to progressive fantasies about net zero utopia. This second issue has been little discussed, let alone recognized at all, in the recent press coverage....

Source: Townhall Media/Katie Pavlich>Just when you think the situation at the Southern border can’t get any worse, it does. Last week, Texas National Guardsman SPC Bishop E. Evans drowned attempting to save two migrants from drowning. It was later revealed the migrants “were involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking.” This tragic incident highlights a number of questions that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to answer. So, what is DHS going to do about the border crisis? With Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifying on the Hill, the DHS produced a 20-page memo outlining his six-point plan to...

TUSK, a censorship-free web browser for conservatives with an emphasis on free speech, launched on Tuesday, allowing users to "browse right" on the internet. TUSK founder and Virtual World Computing CEO Jeff Bermant feels "most popular browsers and search engines are inherently left-leaning and biased" and he wanted to create a place where conservatives can see what like-minded people are saying. "TUSK was developed with the idea of free speech, because if you go to other browsers and you go to their news feeds, you'll find that its center left or it's left and you weren't getting the full story,"...

At least S&P 500 futures are up this morning, an opportunity to buy the dip. But on the housing front, we see that mortgage rates have pieced the 5.50% barrier and is now at 5.57%. On the rent side, apartment rents are growing at 19.3% YoY for both Class A and Class B units. Commodities are down this AM. WTI Crude is down -1.71%, iron ore is down -4.06% and nickel is down -6.29%. We now know that Anthony Fauci and other NIH scientists were receiving $350 million in “royalties” from 3rd parties. Think Pfizer and Moderna. Anthony Fauci, director...

The case of Crist Kolby and his probable death by a wolf was first written by W. R. Selfridge and published in 1943 in Alaskan Sportsman. It was published again in 1956 in the book Blood on the Arctic Snow and examined again in The Wolves of Alaska #ad: A Fact-based Saga by Jim Rearden, a legendary writer, scientist and historian in Alaska. This article relies on the account in Blood on the Arctic Snow, supplemented with analysis from The Wolves of Alaska and internet sources for the Ketchican Cemetary and the Thirteenth Annual Alaska Game Commission report, 1936-1937. In...

Never trust people who are called experts by others or who call themselves experts. Almost all have an agenda. Last week, the Federal Reserve raised rates one half percent and the stock market went up over 900 points. The "experts" on CNBC said that was because the market had priced in the increase. The next day, the market went down over 1,000 points. The experts were 100% wrong. In 1970, on the first Earth Day, the experts predicted billions would die from starvation because of an impending ice age. The experts were 100% wrong. In 1989, the experts at the...

Biden recently defended his support of infanticide by claiming to be a “child of God.” Strange assertions are not unexpected from Biden. His forty year political career has been characterized by gaffes, and his recent, precipitous mental decline has reduced him to a babbling chatterbox. But he did manage some rhetorical clarity recently, however disassociated from logic. “I believe I have the rights that I have not because government gave it to me, which you believe, but because I’m just a child of God; I exist,” Biden said during a press conference last Wednesday. Biden has famously defended his support...

Watched on Rumble after signing up at Dinesh.Locals. Here are some facts and the Deep Thoughts: 1) Is the movie reliable? Video footage monitoring ballot boxes are 100% verifiable -- these are footage the government is required to have at the ballot boxes. You can obtain this footage yourself through FOIA. 2) Why is the Left so eager to come out with "fact check"s on the film even from the day it came out? Did the Left ever do fact checks on Bowling for Columbine or Gore's Inconvenient "Truth"? 3) They set a very high standard to capture cheating behavior....