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@RandPaul I’ve stayed out of the Republican Presidential Primary so far - but I’ve seen enough. That’s why tomorrow morning I will have something important to say. Don’t miss it!

Texas has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months over their laws protecting preborn children from abortion, with state legislators accused of putting women’s lives at risk, all because women cannot electively kill their preborn children. Texas laws do allow an abortion if the mother “has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places [her] at risk of death or poses a substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.” Yet this is deemed to be cruel and insufficient to safeguard women’s health — so much so that an...

The Army saw a 6% decline in white recruits from 2022 to 2023, the steepest drop of a gradual decrease since 2018, Military.com reported. The 6% drop year-over-year resulted in a low of 25,070 white recruits in 2023, down from the 44,042 new white recruits in 2018, according to the report. The decline is responsible for the overall shortfall of 10,000 recruits in 2023 as the Army fell short of its target of 65,000 new soldiers, according to the report. The Army declined to provide a geographic breakdown of which parts of the country saw the biggest drop and also...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a San Diego-area school district to reinstate two teachers who were placed on administrative leave for refusing to keep students’ gender transitions a secret from parents.The order from Judge Roger Benitez says the teachers, who haven’t been allowed in their classrooms since last May, must be allowed to return by next Tuesday, Jan. 15. In September, Benitez blocked their employer, Escondido Union School District, from forcing them to comply with their policy to socially transition kids to different gender identities behind their parents’ backs."Both sides are expected to work in good faith going forward...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — The Ohio House voted to override Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation that bans the chemical and surgical mutilation of gender-confused kids, sometimes referred to as “sex changes.” The legislation also prohibits gender-confused males from competing against females in women’s sports. The House passed the legislation, the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, again on Wednesday by a vote of 65-28. The Ohio Senate convenes again on January 24 and could vote to override the governor’s veto. The moderate Republican governor vetoed the legislation at the end of December after lobbying from LGBT activists. Last week,...

Singer Jelly Roll speaks at the Senate hearing on a fentanyl bill, saying 190 people in America die daily from a drug overdose.

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) stepped down as co-chair of No Labels last month, raising speculation about a potential third-party presidential campaign. Hogan’s resignation letter, dated Dec. 15 and first reported by The Associated Press on Thursday, doesn’t disparage the organization or its mission, but also doesn’t provide details on why he left. The moderate Republican governor has long fueled rumors regarding a potential 2024 presidential campaign with No Labels. The group has pledged to put forward a “unity” ticket consisting of one Democrat and one Republican for president.

(LifeSiteNews) — While mainstream media continues to promote the so-called “necessity” of abortion access for women expecting babies with severe disabilities, parents who have lost children to such conditions are speaking out about how they “don’t regret” choosing life in the face of death. The inspiring testimony of parents whose babies have died from Trisomy syndromes was sparked by a Texas woman seeking an exception for the state’s near-total abortion ban due to her 20-week-old child being diagnosed with Trisomy 18 (Edwards’ syndrome). The condition causes delayed development of the unborn baby and, if the child survives through birth, severe...

Former President Donald Trump’s town hall on Fox News Channel (FNC) Wednesday night received nearly double the viewership of CNN’s Republican primary debate featuring former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to data from AdImpact.“Last night, Donald Trump’s town hall on FNC had nearly double the viewership of the 5th Republican Presidential Primary debate on CNN: an estimated 5.7M to 2.9M,” AdImpact announced, providing a chart of the estimated viewership of past debates and town hall events.“The town hall was the most watched Presidential primary TV event we’ve tracked since November 8th,” it added.Indeed, the...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday ruled out a cease-fire in his country's war with Russia, saying the Kremlin's forces would use the pause to rearm and regroup before overwhelming Kyiv's troops. "A pause on the Ukrainian battlefield will not mean a pause in the war," Zelenskyy said during a visit to Estonia. "A pause would play into (Russia's) hands," he said. "It might crush us afterward." Limited cease-fires have occasionally been proposed since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 but have never taken hold.

Russia continues to import large volumes of Western technology critical to its war against Ukraine, even as sanctions show some signs of taking hold, new analysis shows. Western-origin technologies accounted for almost half of all Russian imports of critical components and “high-priority” battlefield goods in the first three-quarters of 2023, according to KSE Institute. Included among the producers were various U.S. tech majors, with some of their trade values increasing versus 2022 levels.

Kicking off the new year with a big victory for babies, women and the doctors who care for them, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from forcing emergency room doctors to carry out abortions (State of Texas v. Becerra). The panel ruling was unanimous. This litigation has been playing out for well over a year, with separate cases originating simultaneously in more than one state. (Stay with us, because the timeline gets a little complicated and we’re diving right in.) Recently it has attracted fresh attention – and media malpractice – due to...

Joe Biden used alias emails to communicate with members of his family while he was Vice President, according to a batch of records obtained by Judicial Watch. In one email Joe Biden signed off on a brief pause of Secret Service protection for son Hunter and granddaughter Natalie Biden during a Kosovo trip. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a tranche of Joe Biden alias emails in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Archives (NARA). The National Archives previously confirmed through a FOIA response that they found 5,138 email messages and 25 electronic files...

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) touted unrestricted abortion access Thursday, announcing she was “pro-life for two seconds after you’re born until you are able to take care of yourself.” Moore has previously supported the Women’s Health Protection Act — which would allow abortion on demand, up until birth, for any reason at any time — and has attacked legislation banning abortion after 15 weeks. Her comments came during a House Ways and Means Committee markup of the “Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act,” a bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting funding for pregnancy...

A man in Florida has been charged with battery after he threw his Subway sandwich at an employee because it had not been cut into two pieces. Alberto De Barros ordered a sandwich at a Subway in Stuart, Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 9, but was "upset" with the sandwich artist upon discovering that the sandwich had not been sliced in half. According to a probable cause affidavit, Cassandra Tia Pierre-Louis, the employee, told De Barros that she would no longer be serving him after he "began causing a disruptive scene." Rather than walk away, the 54-year-old decided the right thing...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A Cocoa woman was arrested on Sunday after a robbery was reported at a local convenience store, according to the police department. In a probable cause affidavit, police said they were called to the store at 2009 N. Cocoa Blvd. around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. Upon arrival, police were told that two women — identified as Mercy Thomas, 23, and Timetrea Smith, 28 —had entered the store, and began throwing food and damaging merchandise, the affidavit says. Surveillance footage showed Thomas yelling at a couple in the store before throwing a container of mac-and-cheese and some...

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“Who are we? Who are they really fighting? It’s a group of cowards. They hide in tunnels. They hide behind civilians. They attack, kill, and usually children murder. And they do that. Stop talking about proportion on that. They shot their best shot on October 7th, and they would have taken more lives if they could’ve done that,” Fetterman said in a fiery speech before the group. “But they couldn’t do it. And now let’s also talk about that. Now we’re talking about genocide. And now South Africa is now bringing that kind of a trial. Maybe South Africa, maybe...

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