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I’m the first millennial Republican to run for US president. If you ask most people my age what it means to be an American today, you get a blank stare in response. Faith, patriotism, family and hard work are disappearing. A recent Wall Street Journal survey reveals that young people in particular are responsible for driving this trend: 59% of Americans age 65 and older say that patriotism is “very important” to them, compared with only 23% of adults under age 30. The survey observed a similar gap with respect to interest in religion, hard work and having children. This...

In the past week, America has pondered two news stories involving schools, one tragic, the other cynical. On Monday, an attacker shot and killed three children and three adults in a Tennessee grade school, the latest in an almost-weekly parade of carnage in America’s classrooms. Days earlier, House Republicans, who have managed for decades to stymie meaningful national firearms restrictions, passed a “Parents Bill of Rights” that seeks to stick the federal government’s nose into local school policies on behalf of right-wing activists who view the nation’s overworked, underpaid teachers as the enemy. In a functioning political system, a major...

Seven women are suing the Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority after it was told to admit a male who identifies as transgender to the University of Wyoming (UW) chapter. Artemis Langford, 21, was accepted into KKG following a vote that was held after he submitted an admission form last September. “I feel so glad to be in a place that I think not only shares my values, but to be in a sisterhood of awesome women that want to make history,” Langford told The Branding Iron, a local publication where he is also employed as a contributor, during an interview...

Jessie Watters: “Did the United States Senate just say we are going to protect you from China by spying on you? Let’s try to get some answers out of Sen. Lindsey Graham who supports this and is here now,” Watters said just prior to Graham appearing on the show. “You have got to be kidding me, Senator. Did you read this?” “I don’t think I support the RESTRICT Act,” Graham told Watters. “You don’t support this?” Watters asked, “Because you were named as one of the supporters, ‘cause this is garbage.” On Congress.gov you are listed as one of the...

WASHINGTON — A top White House ally plans to paint Republicans’ focus on issues around race, gender and sexual identity as part of a GOP strategy to undermine public education as White House officials debate how forcefully to engage in the so-called culture wars dominating the right. In remarks prepared for the National Press Club on Tuesday, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is expected to say state and local laws that ban certain types of books or restrict what can be taught in the classroom are “fueling hostility and fear” and aren’t serving students, parents or teachers, according...

The Covid outbreak in early 2020 (from which I came close to dying) resulted in legendary Fed stimulus and Federal government spending. But as The Fed attempts to cool inflation by slowing M2 Money printing and raising The Fed’s target rate, we are seeing the lowest personal consumption expenditures print under Biden’s reign of error, a measly 1%. On top of the dismal revision to the Q4, we are seeing WARN notices increasing, particularly for large states. Worker Adjustment and Retraining (WARN) Notices are picking up which points to unemployment claims soon rising and a deterioration in the jobs market,...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that defeat in Bakhmut, despite the narrative that it is strategically unimportant, would result in the international community and a “tired” Ukrainian public pressuring him to compromise with Russia – which he does not want to do. In an interview with Associated Press executive Julie Pace, Zelensky made not only a frank admission that the Joe Biden administration in the United States “really understands that if they stop helping us, we will not win,” but warned that defeat in Bakhmut could be a bigger blow to the Ukrainian war effort than some analysts believe —...

Ever since Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the [health care] bill, so you can find out what’s in it,” I have been skeptical about any law our politicians pass. The fact that you had the Speaker of the House, at the time, openly admitting that she had no idea what was included in, or more importantly – what the ramifications would be for such a major law- was downright shocking, stunning and dangerous. But time and time again we see that laws that our politicians pass end up having unintended (or intended) consequences. Whether it’s the Covid Relief...

Activists on Wednesday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the idea of payments of $5 million per person as "nothing" and "too little."

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After claiming the Disinformation Governance Board would be run in line with "best practices," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is now shielding communications that may reveal its true purpose. When the existence of the Disinformation Governance Board burst into public view, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said there was nothing sinister to hide and claimed the office was rooted in "best practices." A year later, Mayorkas' department is refusing to let Americans see most of the legal justifications and talking points it created to defend the now-disbanded board from "blowback," FOIA documents showed. More than 100 pages of internal communication between...

* Keshondra Turner, 53, was cooking in her soul food truck at 1pm on Tuesday when a man attempted to hold up the business and fire his weapon at her. * The assailant's gun jammed allowing Turner time to reach for her firearm and shoot several rounds at the criminal. * The 23-year-old would-be robber was declared dead on the scene and Turner was taken to a local hospital for a panic attackA Texas grandma with a gun took down an armed robber Tuesday who had attempted to hold up her family-owned soul food truck. The woman, Keshondra Howard Turner,...

Would the RESTRICT Act—a.k.a. the TikTok ban bill—criminalize the use of VPNs? That's the rumor floating around about the legislation, which was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Mark Warner (D–Va.) earlier this month. Warner's office has said his bill wouldn't do this… but its broad language leaves room for doubt. And the act is still insanely far-reaching and could have a huge range of deleterious effects, even if it doesn't criminalize people using a VPN to access TikTok. (snip) The language describing who the RESTRICT ACT applies to is confusing at best. The commerce secretary would be authorized to...

Residents in western Raymond, Minnesota were evacuated early Thursday morning after a train derailed and several rail cars started on fire. According to the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office, numerous rail cars from a BNSF Railway train derailed on the western edge of Raymond at around 1 a.m. According to BNSF, four cars carrying ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire. No injuries have been reported.

Left-wing activists without children in the school came to intimidate parents who wanted to protect their children against sexualization and gender ideology in schools.On Tuesday, hundreds of people lined up in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) headquarters parking lot due to public hearings about transgender students using school bathrooms.According to the radicalized left-wing board’s website, “All students have the right to use the washrooms and other facilities they feel most comfortable with. This includes ‘boys,’ ‘girls,’ and all-inclusive facilities.”It and other local boards facing similar criticism have pointed to the Ontario Human Rights Commission and Code to back up...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., got into a shouting match with Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-NY, in the halls of Congress after the Democrat called Republicans "cowards" for not supporting gun control in the wake of Monday's school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Bowman was preaching about Republicans' lack of courage in front of a throng of reporters as other lawmakers filed past. Bowman accused Republicans of not caring about the six victims in this week's school shooting in Nashville. "What are they doing about it? Nothing. They don't have the courage. They're cowards," Bowman can be heard shouting as the video begins....

Judge Beryl Howell did not get the gushing send off from her colleagues she undoubtedly expected. Howell, appointed to the D.C. District Court by Barack Obama in 2010 and elevated to the court’s highest post in 2016—just in time to oversee numerous criminal investigations into Donald Trump—finished up her seven-year stint as chief judge earlier this month. Colleagues and staff assembled in her courtroom as the proverbial torch was passed to Judge James Boasberg, another Obama appointee. But according to Politico, the retirement celebration turned into a “roast” of sorts as one judge after another chided Howell for her closed-doors...

Russia’s top security agency arrested an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent was put behind bars on spying accusations since the Cold War. The newspaper denied the allegations against Evan Gershkovich. The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. The FSB, which is the top successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, alleged that Gershkovich “was acting on the U.S. orders to collect information about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian...

In the past week, two high profile football (soccer for Americans) players have collapsed on the field of play, continuing a trend that has seemingly now become the norm.Last Wednesday, 28-year-old Brazilian player Zé Carlos, from the club Ferroviário suffered a sudden illness while playing in a cup match.He was treated as the game went on, according to reports, and returned to the pitch for a short time before being substituted and then collapsing and being taken to hospital in an ambulance…

“Several casualties” are confirmed after two helicopters with the 101st Airborne Division crashed in southwestern Kentucky, the Army said without immediately disclosing how many Air Assault crewmembers were killed or injured. Two HH-60 Blackhawk helicopters crashed around 10 p.m. Wednesday in Trigg County near the Tennessee border, officials at nearby Fort Campbell said. “The status of the crew members are unknown at this time,” the statement on the base’s Facebook page reads. Crewmembers were flying “during a routine training mission when the incident occurred.” “We’ve got some tough news out of Fort Campbell, with early reports of a helicopter crash...