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On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood. At issue is a 2018 order by pro-life South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster directing the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to stop abortion facilities from receiving taxpayer funds from the state’s Medicaid program. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. “We are pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Kerr v. Planned Parenthood,” said NRLC President Carol Tobias. “Taxpayers should not be forced into supporting or supplementing abortion facilities and states should not be...

Federal insurers should not reimburse patients seeking organ transplant surgery in China, the commission said in its new report.A congressional committee has offered several recommendations to the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government on how to end the Chinese regime’s horrific practice of forced organ harvesting, with measures that would discourage Americans from traveling to China for organ transplantation.The bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released its 2024 annual report on human rights conditions in China on Dec. 20. The report, which is more than 300 pages long, documented China’s “massive failures to comply with international human rights...

Michael Tomasky was back on Morning Joe today, beating his dour, one-note samba: right-wing media is the root of all evil. Last month, we caught New Republic editor Tomasky blaming conservative media for Kamala Harris's defeat. He even claimed that right-wing media is more powerful than the MSM. As we wrote: "If only!"Today, Tomasky blamed right-wing media, singling out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium, for Trump's current popularity, as reflected in majority support for his handling of the transition. Trump has nominated "unqualified extremists" across the board, and yet the public approves of the transition. He doesn't blame "people," he...

House Republicans on Friday began coalescing around a new plan to fund the government before the midnight deadline, preparing to vote on a temporary funding extension separate from other year-end priorities loaded into prior versions of the bill. The details were still being worked out Friday morning, lawmakers said, but the tentative plan is to split up votes on the disparate priorities and let them pass or fail on their own merits. That would likely mean a standalone vote on a “clean” extension of current government funding levels through March 14, passing on its own with bipartisan support. Then there...

Just days after grocery giant Kroger told The Washington Stand that the abortion drug mifepristone was listed on their Health Savings Club pharmacy website due to an “error” and removed the listing, wholesale giant Sam’s Club has likewise stated that it too erroneously listed the abortion pill on its pharmacy website due to an error committed by a “third-party vendor.” On Wednesday, Live Action News reported that Sam’s Club’s previous online listing of the abortion drug was removed, with a spokesperson telling the outlet, “We use a third-party vendor to aggregate medication pricing, and their tool provided incorrect information.” On...

Court records and documents obtained by The Federalist show there’s far more to the story than the Times lets on.The New York Times recently dropped its latest “bombshell scandal” involving President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth — and it’s about as vapid and toothless as one would expect.“They’re desperately searching for anything to malign Pete,” Hegseth’s lawyer Tim Parlatore told The Federalist. Published on Monday by Times lackies Dave Philipps and Sharon LaFraniere, the hit piece takes aim at Hegseth’s security guard John Jacob Hasenbein, a former Army Special Forces master sergeant. Specifically, the left-wing propagandists detailed a...

It’s morning in California again. Or at least early afternoon. The streets are still filled with bums and their patrons are running the state, but at least stealing is somewhat illegal again.Career criminals are discovering that the right side of history is no longer on the side of the thieves.A new California law that had overwhelming support from voters is now on the books. Prop 36 charges people with a felony after a third arrest.Law enforcement is already making arrests and putting people in jail.“After the passage of Prop 36, we now have the ability, with two previous convictions, even...

As Sunday Powers drove along a remote highway in Alaska, her boss tracked her every move from 3,000 miles away. A former Girl Scout raised in a town called North Pole, population 2,427, Powers had gotten involved in the drug business. She sold blue fentanyl pills and smuggled money for a dealer in California, according to court documents and interviews. Powers had never met her boss, Heraclio Sanchez Rodriguez — he had been serving a life sentence in the California prison system since 1998. Authorities charge that Sanchez ran one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in Alaskan history without...

Last night was great. Currently Roger Stone speaking.

The policy in Jackson Local is the same policy we've seen implemented in districts across the country: Teachers are required to use student's "preferred" pronouns and "socially transition" them to the opposite gender if that's what the student demands. Inmates running the asylum, if you will. In many cases, the "social transition" is, by policy, done behind the backs of parents who would otherwise object to the trans-ing of their kids. In this case, it was the religious liberty angle which secured the settlement for Geraghty.

What makes the IBM PC so significant in the history of personal computing? Its impact goes far beyond being a simple product – it's a symbol of standardization and accessibility that reshaped the industry for decades to come. Think of this in today's terms... what differentiates a gaming desktop from a home console? Is it the ability to choose any parts and peripherals you want? Or perhaps the support for games created decades before the computer itself? In the past, the main difference would be a keyboard. A typical early-1980s computer. Image: Miles Bintz These days, Apple is the only...

It’s not easy being a super-genius. It’s a burden! Sure, it’s fun to spend your Sunday afternoons rounding off infinity and memorizing Pi to the gazillionth decimal point, but being a super-genius is a frustrating experience: You’re never on the same wavelength as everyone else. You’ve gotta dumb down all your comments. And in the business world, you’re constantly being ordered around by dopes, dolts, and dunces. You feel like Albert Einstein being bossed around by George the Animal Steele. What’s even worse is when we super-geniuses are underpaid. Oh, my intellectually inferior friends: Hell hath no fury like a...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday joined outrage over Elon Musk’s endorsement of the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has been criticized as a neo-Nazi group, ahead of February elections in the country. Musk, the tech billionaire and close ally to President-elect Trump, posted on his social platform X that “only the AfD can save Germany,” triggering backlash in the U.S. and from Berlin. “The out of touch billionaire running the incoming Trump Administration announced last night that he enthusiastically supports the neo-Nazi party in Germany,” Murphy posted on X, alongside a screenshot of Musk’s tweet....

I was the Plaintiff, but I was not wrong. In 2012, I filed a lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, with documents proving that Barack Obama was using a stolen Social Security Number as president, a violation of federal law. My lawsuit contained an eighteen-page Complaint and eighty-three pages of documents supporting my allegations. Obama, who originally had a Hawaiian number, began using a stolen Connecticut number in his mid-20s, likely to hide his past. A reliable source said that Hawaiian police were familiar with Obama and his sleazy encounters with drugs and old white tourists and they...

Explanation: On the night of December 15, the Full Moon was bright. Known to some as the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon, it was the closest Full Moon to the northern winter solstice and the last Full Moon of 2024. This Full Moon was also at a major lunar standstill. A major lunar standstill is an extreme in the monthly north-south range of moonrise and moonset caused by the precession of the Moon's orbit over an 18.6 year cycle. As a result, the full lunar phase was near the Moon's northernmost moonrise (and moonset) along the horizon. December's...

“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg made a joke about Elon Musk and JD Vance killing Donald Trump on Thursday’s episode of the daytime talkshow, one which left her scrambling to clean up. Goldberg, 69, made the quip during a conversation about the way Musk, 53, has inserted himself into the debate about the bipartisan spending bill that lawmakers on Capitol Hill are hoping to pass and in turn avoid a government shutdown. “Who is in charge?” asked Goldberg, a vocal critic of President-elect Trump, 78. “Because I’ve been saying it for a while. I’ve been saying it – I think...

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes is leaving the department after being selected to lead the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Mayor’s Office announced. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said Barnes was chosen after a nationwide search. Chief Barnes has been with the Madison Police Department since 2021. Communities nationwide heard from Barnes this week after a 15-year-old student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, in Madison, killing two people and wounding several others. “Earlier this week, under tragic circumstances, the nation received its introduction to Chief Shon Barnes,” said Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell. “We all saw firsthand what our team...

A federal judge has ruled that the owner of an Osage County wind farm, Osage Wind LLC, must pay over $300,000 in damages, millions in attorney fees, and remove 84 turbines and supporting structures by December 2025. The case, which has been ongoing for more than a decade, centers around the wind farm's failure to obtain necessary permits from the Osage Minerals Council. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves ruled in 2023 that Enel, the parent company, had committed trespass by extracting minerals from the Osage illegally

President-elect Donald Trump filed a blockbuster legal motion on Friday to stop President Joe Biden from making a final move in office that the Republican argued would compromise the country’s safety and lead to another significant influx of illegal immigrants. Fox News reported on an amicus brief filed by Trump’s lawyers on Friday as part of a lawsuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration’s privatization of the border wall separating the United States from Mexico, joining Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri as they challenge whether the president violated a court order in moving to do so. The sale, Trump...

The Zuytdorp shipwreck was likely caused by a storm, not navigational errors, according to new research. Flinders University archaeologists analyzed historical and environmental data, showing the crew had sufficient skills to navigate but were overcome by severe weather...The study, published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology by Flinders University archaeologists Dr. Ruud Stelten and Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde, examined ship logs, historical maps, navigational practices, and weather patterns of the era to uncover the causes of the wreck.The Zuytdorp is one of four Dutch shipwrecks discovered off the Western Australian coast in the past century, with the Batavia and the...