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The Supreme Court has scarcely filled its docket for the 2023-24 term, but it is already shaping up to a major term for administrative law. Among the cases accepted for next term with potentially significant implications for administrative law are the following: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America—Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the CFPB violates the appropriations clause in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, and in vacating a regulation promulgated at a time when the Bureau was receiving such funding. (I wrote about the...

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French police have declared they are 'at war' with 'savage hordes of vermin' amid widespread rioting and looting that saw a bus stolen and a car smashed into a supermarket front. Two police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron's government restored order amid protests sparked by the killing of a French-Algerian teenager by police on Tuesday - also causing the French president to cancel his trip to Germany. 'Today the police are in combat because we are at war,' a report from the unions said. 'Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.' It...

@KimDotcom “I don’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 election. Things will implode in Washington before that.” — Colonel Douglas Macgregor

Beer lovers from across the globe have taken part in the world wife-carrying championships in Finland to win their partner's weight in beer. Husbands were pictured purple in the face as they struggled to lug their wives around a sand obstacle course and deep water pool in the middle summer. Contestants headed to the small town of Sonkajärvi, Finland, armed with only a helmet and belt this weekend to win their wife's weight in beer. They have to be aged at least 17 and have to weigh at least 49kg, meaning the winning prize will secure their husbands at least...

Josh Timonen was one of Richard Dawkins’ closest companions from 2006-2010. He was even working for Richard Dawkins when Dawkins was publicly shaming Ray Comfort for videos that appeared as if Ray was saying that bananas prove the existence of God—which eventually culminated in Ray being known as The Banana Man. Yet by the grace of God, over a decade later, Josh ended up coming to Christ! Here’s his story.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s System Update, to discuss the raunchy nudity at this year’s Pride parades, the LGBTQ activist community’s push related to children, and more.

A shooting in Baltimore, Maryland, early Sunday morning left dozens of people wounded and multiple fatalities. The incident happened during a gathering overnight in the Brooklyn Homes section of South Baltimore, according to Fox 45 Baltimore. Police officers and medical personnel responded to the scene in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue, Baltimore Police said. Witnesses told Fox 45 Baltimore they heard 20 to 30 shots fired.

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The first black socialist woman elected to Boston City Council crashed her car while driving through the city in an unregistered, uninsured car, while her license was revoked.Kendra Lara, 33, totaled the gray 2019 Honda Civic when it crashed through a metal fence, ran over bushes, and slammed into the left side of a home in the Jamaica Plains district. Her seven-year-old son Zaire was in the car, but was not in a booster seat.He was taken to Boston Children's Hospital where he received 'several stitches' and is expected to make a full recovery. According to the police report, obtained...

@COVIDSelect Explosive emails from Dr. David Morens — Senior Scientific Advisor @NIAIDNews & Dr. Fauci ally — reveal a potential violation of federal record keeping laws. Get your popcorn ready folks... Dr. Morens intentionally used his personal email to avoid FOIA and evade transparency to the American people: ▪️ "I try to always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA'd constantly." ▪️ "I will delete anything I don't want to see in the New York Times" Dr. Morens used his official capacity @NIAIDNews to disparage reporters and belittle his fellow scientists: ▪️ "Do not rule out suing these...

The music wow Kelly Willard with a song I first heard in the summer of 1981 in my car as the legendary WGCB Radio in Red Lion (The First Amendment, "Red Lion" Case Involving The Fairness Doctrine) experimented with Contemporary Christian Music... Donald Trump Had It Right As President He Unleashed America's Economic Potential I posted something on Free Republic the other day in a thread concerning the comments of Liz Cheney about "idiots" being elected to office nowadays... Senators like Lindsey Graham who have kissed up to powerful people as US Senators enriching themselves becoming Fellatio Alger's deserve this...

Some student loan borrowers encouraged others to default on their loans "en masse" following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan, but one expert told Newsweek why that may not be a good idea. "Okay, thing I can actually talk about: Mass default on student loan debt would be a really effective message and f*** you to this country from the folks most impacted by our constant slide backwards. Just don't pay it. Hit the bricks. En masse," Twitter user Derek Van Dyke wrote. On Friday, the Supreme Court reached...

A California mother has claimed she was told to terminate her surrogate pregnancy at 24 weeks by the child's prospective fathers after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Brittney Pearson, 37, from Sacramento told DailyMail.com that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May at 22 weeks. She says that after a full body MRI revealed the extent of the disease, the gay couple who were paying her to carry their child used legal threats to pressure her into terminating the pregnancy. Initially, Pearson claims, doctors at Sutter Health Medical Centre in Sacramento, believed she would be able to have...

A “Rally for Life” took place in Dublin city center today to ask the Government to address what it describes as “spiraling” abortion rates and the need to retain the three-day wait before an abortion can take place. Around 3,000 people attended the Rally for Life event, which began at the Garden of Remembrance at 1 pm. It then traveled down O’Connell Street before speeches took place on the quays. […] “We now know that the abortion numbers jumped 22% last year,” Rally for Life spokesperson Megan Ní Scealláin said. “There were 8,156 abortions in 2022 — up from an...

ABC’s “The View” won’t be going live on Friday, June 30, or even on days following, as a new report states. This is supposedly because all five of the co-hosts, including; Sunny Hostin, Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, and Alyssa Farah Griffin, are all on hiatus at the current moment. These five had recently taken a break during Memorial Day weekend, and again, they’re off, as Decider puts it, for an extended Independence Day vacation. “New episodes of The View will return on Monday, July 10. In the meantime, we hope they are soaking in the summer...

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a new release date on PC – and don’t panic, it’s not a delay. Larian Studios’ RPG is launching via Steam on August 3, 2023, almost a month before the originally scheduled date at the end of August.

Doug MacGregor believes the situation in the US will implode before the scheduled 2024 elections

Men might soon no longer need a prescription to access medicines to treat erectile dysfunction.Men might soon no longer need a prescription to access medicines for erectile dysfunction (ED). The data on how many men suffer from erectile dysfunction vary, but the Massachusetts Male Aging Study found 52 percent of men aged 40-70 suffer from some form of ED, and “complete impotence tripled from 5 to 15%” from age 40 to 70.While more than half of men aged 40 to 70 suffer from ED, a growing number of young men are struggling. Research published 10 years ago in the Journal...

<p>A Wisconsin Democrat is facing heat after boldly stating hate for suburbs while debating the rising crime plaguing cities.</p><p>State Sen. LaTonya Johnson said, "f--- the suburbs," during a debate on the Senate floor over increased funding for police as city crime makes its way to quiet suburbs.</p>