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Many of us who work in politics have felt sickened since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. We sense that a line has been crossed, perhaps permanently. For years, the Left had accused conservative intellectuals of fomenting “stochastic terrorism”—incendiary rhetoric that inspires violence. This accusation was used to purge conservatives from social media, and, during the Biden administration, contributed to the F.B.I.’s decision to monitor conservatives, including parents who opposed critical race theory. The Left sought to use the stochastic terrorism construction as an all-purpose censorship tool. This year, the tables have turned. Donald Trump is in power and left-wing violence...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to reform and close loopholes in the H-1B and L-1 visa programs. The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act targets fraud and abuse in our immigration system, provides protections for American workers and visa holders and enhances transparency in the foreign worker recruitment process. Grassley and Durbin have long partnered to improve the H-1B visa system and first introduced their bipartisan legislation in 2007. Last week, the senators sent letters to 10 major U.S. employers, including Amazon, Google and Meta, scrutinizing their heavy...

Changes are brewing — and they could be a sign of a decline in living standards. Maxwell House recently announced it will be changing its name for the first time in 133 years, rebranding to “Maxwell Apartment.” While the coffee blend will remain the same with the same “taste, aroma, quality and ingredients,” the rebrand is in name only to represent the reality of today’s consumers. Nearly a third of Americans are now renting smaller places, rather than purchasing full-size homes — and the coffee giant wants to reflect that stat with its temporary rebrand. “Two-thirds of American adults drink...

Image credit: Gary Todd / Public Domain) When researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull unearthed in China, they made a surprising discovery, revealing features that could potentially alter the story of our beginnings. Researchers believe the skull, known as Yunxian 2, is approximately one million years old. This finding suggests that the lineages leading to modern humans and their relatives may have existed at least half a million years earlier than previously believed. The “Muddle in the Middle” The stretch of time between one million and 300,000 years ago has presented challenges for scientists studying human evolution. Fossils from this...

@SenRandPaul We were told to mask up between peanuts or be treated like we were taking down the plane. That kind of absurdity fed secret watchlists where spite or bias could brand us threats. We ended Quiet Skies, but we must stop government secrecy, over-classification, and surveillance of Americans.

An explosion has occurred in a New York City high-rise just a short time ago, with emergency crews responding. The residential building suffered some sort of catastrophic explosion this morning resulting in a gaping hole remaining. While a gas explosion is being considered, as I write there is no confirmation yet on exactly what sparked the blast. No injuries have been reported at the time of this report, but emergency crews are still responding with reports of bomb sniffing dogs on scene — visible in some of the footage. A large portion of the 20-story building collapsed, now laying in...

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Visa Cap Enforcement Act. This bill restricts the ability of universities, research institutions, and non-profits to hire an unlimited number of foreign workers. “Colleges and universities shouldn’t get special treatment for bringing in woke and anti-American professors from around the world. My bill closes these loopholes that universities have abused for far too long,” said Senator Cotton. Text of the bill can be found here. The Visa Cap Enforcement Act would: Eliminate four exemptions to the H-1B visa cap, including one for foreigners who hold a master’s degree or higher from a U.S....

The information is going to come out to the public in the same format from which it was created, the “silo format.” It is up to us, the independent thinking American people, to force the silo administrators to understand how it all connects.The connections will not be made willingly by any entity, friend or foe, inside Washington DC. Instead, willful blindness will permeate each revelation as it is discovered. DC does not want us to see how it all connects. It is up to us to put the puzzle together, then shove the undeniable resulting image in their face.♦ DATA...

Thank you Chuck. Throughout my limited political activity I have always come across folks that want to help. "What can I do?" Is a commonly heard question. Here is your perfect chance to do something. All politicians dislike when they get hammered for doing bad stuff. Too often they do not receive praise for doing a good thing. If you feel the urge to thank Chuck, please remember to use your indoor, civil voice. Here are the office and fax numbers to use when thanking Chuck for allowing President Trump to further streamline the bloat. Washington DC: 202-224-6542, fax 202-228-3027Albany...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian academics is a deliberate attack on free speech meant to “strike fear” into non-citizen students and chill campus protests. “The effect of these targeted deportation proceedings continues unconstitutionally to chill freedom of speech to this day,” U.S. District Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench. Young, a Reagan appointee based in Boston, did not immediately order changes to administration policies, but said he will hold further proceedings on how...

Democrats sure do revere criminals and illegals. Remember when, during January’s presidential address to the joint session of Congress, the Democrats refused to stand or applaud for the Laken Riley Act, passed in honor of the young girl murdered by an illegal migrant on the campus of the University of Georgia? They sat on their hands, as they did when the young cancer patient, DJ Daniel, was introduced. When the mothers of other victims of illegal rapists and murderers, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin, for example, speak publicly, the Democrats cannot be bothered to comment. There are 13,000 illegal migrants...

Banderism to become a crime in Poland.Ever since the war in Ukraine started, neighboring Poland has absorbed over a million citizens fleeing the conflict.While most are contributing to Polish society, many are just enjoying social benefits, and – what’s much worse – some bring with themselves the neo-Nazi cult of Kiev regime hero Stepan Bandera.Any neo-Nazi cult would be bad enough, but Bandera is the man responsible for the WW2-era Volyn massacre of Poles that took over a hundred thousand lives.Polish President Karol Nawrocki sent to the Sejm (parliament) an amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance...

I remember living in New York City decades ago when I saw ads suggesting that we straight white devils "tolerate" the gay crowd. Then we were pressured to "accept" them. As a liberal in the Big Apple, I thought this was a waste of social pressure. New York City was and is as gay-friendly as a San Francisco bathhouse. But the truth is, tolerance and acceptance were never going to be enough. Nor was that even the goal. The Supreme Court (no, not President Barack Obama) legalized gay marriage ten years ago. Rather than take an expected victory lap, the...

Charlie Kirk is dead. Americans must face why.His murder was not random, not confusing, not detached from the battles he fought so fiercely in life. It was the direct consequence of his bold refusal to bend before one of the most aggressive and destabilizing ideologies of our time: transgender radicalism.For years, Kirk warned about the dangers of this movement. Not just its cultural consequences, but the deeper crisis of mental illness and violence it has unleashed across the nation. In the end, his voice was silenced by precisely the pestilence he spent his career opposing.The facts are painfully clear. On...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican invites pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Arnold Schwarzenegger to speak on climateThe former California governor, who officiated at two homosexual ‘weddings,’ spoke at a Vatican press conference ahead of a ‘climate justice’ meeting at Castel Gandolfo.Actor-turned-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is pro-abortion and pro-gay “marriage,” spoke at a Vatican press conference Tuesday welcoming Catholics’ contributions to the environmental movement.Schwarzenegger spoke at a Holy See Press Office press conference ahead of the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” conference to be held in Castel Gandolfo on October 1-3, when more than 1,000 political and religious leaders as well as “climate experts” will...

A Washington, D.C., police sergeant is on administrative leave after authorities say he crashed a car into a federal vehicle during a traffic stop and was found with unregistered weapons. Police Sergeant Montez Clark, 27, and two others were arrested Monday night after Clark allegedly tried to flee from federal agents patrolling on behalf of President Donald Trump’s Make DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force, according to court records and a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Clark faces ten charges of assault on a federal officer, fleeing from a law enforcement officer, leaving after...

U.S. — Celebrations have erupted all across America today as the federal government has actually shut down. Tears poured forth from overjoyed citizens as the government finally closed its doors after years of devastating close calls. "I thought I would never see this day," said local man Chris Henning. "We've come so close so many times, I started to think it might never happen. To be able to look my kids in the eye and say 'Yes, sweetheart, the federal government has really shut down' -- it's an incredible feeling. What a beautiful moment." Fireworks could be seen dotting the...

WND already has reported that a Christian baker from California has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up her cake fight. The dispute is over the state's virulent attack on baker Cathy Miller because she declines to promote ideologies that violate her Christian faith in her cake artistry. The court already has ruled on the issue, deciding in the case involving Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado that he could not be forced to violate his faith.

United States lawmakers continued tightening rules for the H-1B and L-1 worker visa programmes Monday after three senators introduced two separate pieces of legislation to target "loopholes" used by for- and non-profit employers. The top Republican and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee - Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois - tabled a bill to raise wage and hiring standards, mandate public job postings, and narrowing visa eligibility, among others. "Congress created the H-1B and L-1 visa programs as limited pathways for businesses to acquire top talent when it can't be found at home....

Three famous quotes explain the inevitability of the “Schumer Shutdown” — why it always had to happen, what the Democrats really want, and why it’ll all be over within 10 days. But first, an observation that illustrates a larger point: The greatest PR mistake Israel made in Gaza was giving a damn about civilian casualties. By historic standards, an enemy death toll of roughly 65,000 after 720+ days of intense urban warfare is preposterously low. (That statistic, by the way, is self-reported from Hamas, which has every incentive to inflate its numbers, and makes no distinction between civilian and military...