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March 3, 2024

Donald Trump Sweeps Idaho, Missouri and Michigan Contests, Seizes National Poll Lead over Biden

Donald Trump swept the Missouri and Idaho Republican caucuses on Saturday and captured all 39 delegates at the Michigan GOP convention ahead of Super Tuesday as he marched toward a third straight presidential nomination.

March 3, 2024

Federal Court Upholds Most of Arizona’s Two New Election Integrity Laws Regarding Proof of Citizenship, Found No ‘Discriminatory Purpose’

Both sides are calling a federal district court’s ruling a win, which upheld most of two new Arizona election integrity laws. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton struck down parts of HB 2492, which requires proof of citizenship in...

March 3, 2024

Kari Lake Endorses Justin Heap for Maricopa County Recorder

Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake has endorsed State Representative Justin Heap’s (R-Mesa) campaign for Maricopa County Recorder.

March 3, 2024

10 Percent of 2020 Biden Voters Now Back Trump: Poll

Ten percent of President Joe Biden’s 2020 voters now back former President Donald Trump, a new poll found. While 97 percent of voters who cast their ballot for Trump in 2020 still plan to vote for him, Biden is only...

March 3, 2024

Catholic Churches Attacked 400 Times Since 2020, Tracker Finds

Catholic churches in the United States have been attacked at least 400 times over the past four years, according to data compiled by the Catholic advocacy organization CatholicVote. The hundreds of attacks across the nation began in connection with widespread civil unrest...

March 3, 2024

Biden Family Has a Long History of Being Kept Afloat by Democratic Donors

The newly released transcript of presidential brother James Biden’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee shows he received large sums in the form of loans from Democratic donors, mirroring Hunter Biden’s relationship with lawyer and friend Kevin Morris. According to the transcript,...

March 3, 2024

Commentary: The Left’s ‘Christian Nationalism’ Fearmongering Is Untethered to Reality

Is America on the verge of establishing a theocracy? The Left’s recent warnings about the rise of “Christian nationalism” suggest that a powerful, conservative Christian cabal is pulling the strings behind the scenes to forcibly convert the entire nation, or...

March 3, 2024

Arizona Representative Bill Aims to Help Protect Synagogues

Arizona Congressman David Schweikert is introducing legislation on Friday that would loosen regulations on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Nonprofit Security Grant Program to allow for places of worship to get more protection. The House bill dubbed the "Warranting of...

March 3, 2024

FDA Threatens Endangered Species with Shoddy Abortion-Drug Reviews: Lance Armstrong Investigator

Federal public health officials created strange bedfellows among animal-welfare advocates, scientists and vaccine skeptics for allegedly cutting corners in viral and COVID-19 vaccine research and oversight, possibly engineering a pathogen, then a cure that's worse for some. The Food and Drug Administration may be creating...

March 3, 2024

Green: Taxpayers’ $3 Billion Supplying Clean Ports Program

The Biden administration’s choice for zero-emissions operations in America’s ports was boosted Wednesday with the opening of applications for $3 billion from taxpayers in the Clean Ports Program. Equipment and infrastructure needs can be met that “reduce mobile source emissions...

March 3, 2024

Pope Francis Decries Transgenderism as ‘Ugliest Danger,’ Urges Embracing Differences Between Sexes

Pope Francis is delivering another robust denunciation of liberal transgender ideology sweeping the West, declaring it was the “ugliest danger” while urging the world to embrace the differences between men and women. “Erasing differences is erasing humanity,” the pontiff declared...

March 3, 2024

Commentary: Immigration Drove America’s Biggest Population Growth Ever Recorded

Immigration is behind the biggest annual population increase in the history of the United States, according to an independent research firm. “US population grew +3.8M in 2023 – the largest one-year increase in US history,” tweeted Eric Finnigan of John Burns Research...

March 2, 2024

Poll: A Majority of Americans Support Building the Border Wall

A new poll suggests that more Americans than ever before support the idea of building a wall along the southern border, as the mass migration crisis rages out of control and has cost more American lives. According to the Washington Free...

March 2, 2024

Montana Judge Throws Out Three Laws Restricting Abortion

A Montana judge ruled Thursday that three of the state’s laws limiting abortion were unconstitutional, according to the Daily Montanan. The laws banned abortion after 20 weeks and by way of telehealth services, as well as required a 24-hour waiting period and two ultrasounds. District Court...

March 2, 2024

Commentary: American Paralysis and Decline

“We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.

March 2, 2024

Report: Arizona Homelessness Spending near $1 Billion, Mostly on Housing

A new report from the Common Sense Institute of Arizona determines that spending on homelessness in the Grand Canyon State is roughly $1 billion. The think tank analyzed data from both the public and private sectors to see how much...

March 2, 2024

Commentary: Battleground States Reject Biden on the Border

Michigan is very much in play for November. Our new poll shows a dead heat, with Trump and Biden tied at 43% each and 14% undecided for this key swing state. With Trump leading comfortably right now in Georgia and...

March 2, 2024

Average Long-Term Mortgage Rises to 6.94 Percent in Fourth Consecutive Weekly Increase

On Thursday, the average long-term mortgage rate in the United States rose for the fourth week in a row, in a setback for Americans looking to potentially buy a home in the traditional homebuying season of spring. According to ABC News,...

March 2, 2024

Bukele Generates More than $30 Million in Profits for El Salvador with Bitcoin

El Salvador has accumulated more than $30 million in profits by retaining bitcoin reserves, after becoming the first country in Latin America to adopt this digital currency in an initiative led by President Nayib Bukele since 2021. Bitcoin , the most used cryptocurrency , soared...