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October 17, 2021

Parents Announce ‘Not Domestic Terrorists’ Rally in Front of the Justice Department

Northern Virginia parents plan to protest in front of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Sunday, according to a flyer posted online. A flyer reveals plans for a “Parents Are Not ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Rally Oct. 17. “Stand up,...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Biden Priorities Put Citizens, Not National Enemies, in the Crosshairs

When 13 U.S. service members were killed by suicide bombers as American citizens were abandoned in Afghanistan last August—in perhaps the most ill planned military operation since our efforts in Somalia which resulted in naked U.S. servicemen being dragged through...

October 17, 2021

Biden Announces COVID Vaccine Rollout for Children as Young as Five

Joe Biden delivered a short speech from the administration’s fake White House set, Thursday, urging all Americans, including children as young as five, to get vaccinated. Biden claimed that the administration’s draconian vaccine mandates are working, and boasted that the...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Educating Students About the Victims of Communism

Many Americans today assume that the threat of Communism subsided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But “We continue to see Communist and socialist regimes pop up and spread not only in Latin America – for example,...

October 17, 2021

Seattle Elementary School Cancels Halloween Parade Because It ‘Marginalizes Students of Color’

A Seattle elementary school cancelled its Halloween parade citing concerns that the annual event “marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday,” according to Jason Rantz of radio station 770 KTTH. Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary (B.F. Day), part...

October 17, 2021

Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s Pension Restored in DOJ Settlement

Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former Deputy Director of the FBI, has reached a legal settlement with the Justice Department that allows him to receive his pension, as well as reimbursement for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, CNN reports....

October 17, 2021

Commentary: January 6 and the FBI’s ‘Operation Cold Snap’

The tony, bucolic town of Dublin, Ohio would be one of the last places in America expected to host a convention of white supremacist militiamen. Nestled along the Scioto River, the Columbus suburb’s biggest claim to fame is hosting the...

October 17, 2021

Walgreens Closing Five Bay Area Locations Due to Spike in Shoplifting

The pharmaceutical chain Walgreens will be closing five stores in San Francisco, California due to a spike in “organized” shoplifting impacting its locations, according to MarketWatch via MSN. The decision was made by Walgreens’ parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., which will relocate...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Ten Ways the Chinese Government Lied, Misled, and Messed Up Early on in the Pandemic

A plethora of politicians and government officials across the globe screwed up in their handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Chinese government, however, was acutely damaging with its ineptitude, because it, more than any other entity, had a chance to...

October 17, 2021

Biden’s Pick for Top Banking Regulator Refuses to Hand over Thesis on Marxism

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), is refusing to hand over to the Senate Banking Committee her university thesis on Marxism written during her time in the Soviet Union....

October 17, 2021

Texas Democrats: Biden’s Energy Policies Will Cost Jobs, Create Dependence on Foreign Oil

Seven Democratic U.S. representatives have asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, to not target the oil and gas industry in the budget reconciliation bill before Congress. Despite the concerns they...

October 17, 2021

Twitter Is Being Sued for Hiring Spies Who Allegedly Stole Data for Saudi Arabia

A Saudi activist is suing Twitter for allegedly hiring two Saudi spies who, the activist claims, used their positions within the social media company to steal his personal information. The complaint, filed by activist Ali Al-Ahmed on Wednesday a California federal...

October 17, 2021

Leftists Are Waging a War on ‘Gifted’ Children

Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories. Removing gifted and advanced courses is a no-cost way to cover up the racial achievement gap...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: The One Number That Puts Youngkin in the Governor’s Mansion

Some more thoughts on the FOX News poll showing former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe up by 5 points over Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin just three (and now two) weeks out from the November 2nd election. One of the numbers in...

October 17, 2021

Parents Allege Arizona School Disregarded Opt-Out from ‘Gruesome’ Curriculum

The parents of a seventh-grade student in an Arizona school district claimed that a teacher disregarded an “opt-out” from an assignment while speaking before a school board Thursday. “After being made aware of inappropriate racial and political content being taught...

October 16, 2021

Arizona Public Universities to Follow Biden Mandate, Require Employees to Receive COVID Vaccine

Arizona's public universities will follow an order handed down from the Biden administration and require all employees to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The mandate, which will also affect student employees, will give staff until December 8th to upload proof of...

October 16, 2021

Commentary: A Call to Amend Section 230 for Social Media Transparency

Amid growing bipartisan agreement that increased regulation of social media platforms and their content moderation policies is needed, the path forward remains murky. Should Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act be discarded or strengthened? Should companies be broken up...

October 16, 2021

Federal Reserve Begins Taking Steps to Fight Growing Inflation

The Federal Reserve said in September that it would begin taking steps to combat growing inflation in the U.S. economy, according to notes from a Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 Open Market Committee meeting first obtained by The Wall Street...

October 16, 2021

U.S. Navy Preparing to Discharge Unvaccinated Sailors

On Thursday, the United States Navy announced its intentions to discharge any and all sailors who have not yet taken the coronavirus vaccine, according to Fox News. The Navy’s press release on the matter declares that November 14th is the final...

October 16, 2021

Military Levels Final Judgement on Marine Who Criticized Military Leadership over Afghanistan Withdrawal

The Marine whose outspoken social media posts criticizing military leaders for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan received a final judgement in his case Friday. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was given a letter of reprimand and ordered to forfeit $5,000 of pay for...

October 16, 2021

Counterterrorism Police Lead Investigation into Assassination of UK Lawmaker: British Reports

The 25-year-old knifeman who killed British MP Sir David Amess Friday is believed to be a "British Muslim of Somali descent," according to the Daily Mail. Earlier, Essex police announced they were keeping an open mind on whether the stabbing...

October 16, 2021

John Kerry Refuses to Single Out China for Not Setting Climate Goals

Climate envoy John Kerry applauded climate actions made by the U.S. and other countries, but refused to single out China for not setting substantive goals for cutting emissions. “We have a lot of things to still come across the transom...

October 16, 2021

‘Higher Bills for American Families’: House Republicans Demand Answers from Biden Administration on Energy Crisis

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee urged the Biden administration to lay out its plans for tackling the looming energy crisis. The representatives noted that the federal government was responsible for protecting U.S. energy security and ensuring Americans...

October 16, 2021

New January 6 Related Police Records, Transcripts Appear to Show Babbitt Clearly Unarmed Before Shot

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it has received over 500 pages of documents from the D.C. Metropolitan Police regarding the fatal police shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Judicial Watch obtained...

October 16, 2021

Joe Rogan Confronts CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Network’s COVID Lies

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta came woefully unprepared for his interview with podcast host Joe Rogan Wednesday, and was forced to concede several key points that counter the COVID narrative of his network. During Wednesday’s installment of “The...

October 16, 2021

Biden Admin Will Reinstate Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy in November

The Biden administration is planning to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy in November, CBS News reported on Friday. A federal judge ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the policy in August after requests by the Texas...

October 16, 2021

Commentary: The Movement of Black Lives Matter

If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization, one would reasonably expect its patron figure to be Martin Luther King, Jr., and its aspiration to be King’s vision of a race-free America where individuals are judged on their merits...

October 16, 2021

Foreclosures Reportedly Spike as Pandemic Mortgage Benefits End

Home foreclosures across the U.S. are starting to spike as COVID-19 pandemic benefits begin to expire, CNBC reported. Private mortgage lenders started the foreclosure process on 25,209 homes in the third quarter of 2021, a 32% increase from the previous quarter and...

October 16, 2021

Commentary: ‘Woke’ Superman’s Mission Is Neither Bold Nor Brave

DC Comics recently revealed that in an upcoming issue titled “Superman: Son of Kal-El,” the son of Lois Lane and Clark Kent would be bisexual, and that he’s going to fight “real-world problems” such as climate change, that he’ll protest...

October 16, 2021

Former President Trump Urges Action to Strengthen Arizona Elections

Former President Donald Trump on Friday raised concerns over absentee ballots in Arizona's 2020 election and urged action to strengthen the integrity of the process. Pointing to new accusations from Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Trump questioned the number of absentee ballots...

October 15, 2021

Federal Judge Finds DC Jail Officials in Contempt, Demands Civil Rights Inquiry

In a major rebuke of the Justice Department and D.C. Department of Corrections, District Court Judge Royce Lamberth today found the jail’s warden and director of the Department of Corrections in contempt of court for refusing to turn over records...

October 15, 2021

Commentary: America Might Be Headed for a Rome Versus Byzantium Scenario

In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control of two emperors. A Western empire included much of modern-day Western Europe and northwest Africa. The Eastern half controlled Eastern Europe, and...

October 15, 2021

John Kerry Invested $1 Million in Chinese Fund Supporting Company Blacklisted for Human Rights Abuses

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and his wife hold at least $1 million in a Chinese investment fund that owns a significant stake in a Chinese technology company that aided China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, records...

October 15, 2021

GOP Senators Pan McConnell Cave on Debt Ceiling as Gloating Schumer Adds Insult to Injury

Republican senators are panning Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's surrender to Democrats on the short-term debt ceiling increase following a gloating floor speech by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that added insult to GOP injury. The debt ceiling increase of about...

October 15, 2021

Over 94,000 Migrants in Southern Texas Released into the U.S. with Notices to Report, Leaked Docs Show

Just over 94,500 migrants who entered the U.S. illegally were encountered by border officials in southern Texas and released into the country with notices to report, according to data obtained by Fox News on Wednesday. The migrants were encountered in...

October 15, 2021

Senators to Introduce Bipartisan Antitrust Bill Taking Aim at Tech Platforms Prioritizing Their Own Services

A bipartisan group of senators will introduce legislation Thursday designed to prevent large technology platforms like Amazon and Google from giving their own services preferential treatment. The bill, titled the American Choice and Innovation Online Act, accompanies legislation of the same name...

October 15, 2021

Weekly Jobless Claims Dip Below 300,000 for First Time Since March 2020

The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims decreased to 293,000 last week as companies are holding onto workers amid high demand for labor. The Bureau of Labor Statistics figure released Thursday shows a 36,000 claim decrease in the number of new...

October 15, 2021

Biden Administration Plans to Build Wind Farms to Power 10 Million Homes

The Biden administration laid out an ambitious plan Wednesday for government-funded wind farms along the east coast, which it said would sustain millions of Americans’ energy needs. Multiple federal agencies are planning to collaborate on the project, which will be...

October 15, 2021

Majority of Americans Think Government Is Doing Too Much, Poll Shows

Most Americans believe that the federal government is now doing too much, a new poll shows. More than 50% of respondents in the Gallup survey, released Thursday, said that the government was too involved in things that should be left to individuals...

October 15, 2021

Commentary: I’m Leaving My California Teachers’ Union

I have been a middle school special education teacher for 18 years. Every day I spend in the classroom is a joy – the work is hard, but so rewarding – and with almost two decades of experience, I know...

October 15, 2021

NBC Host Katie Couric Says She ‘Protected’ Justice Ginsburg by Cutting Disparaging Remarks on Anthem Kneelers

In her new memoir "Going There," former NBC "Today Show" host Katie Couric acknowledges "protecting" the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her criticism about Americans who kneel during the national anthem that the TV journalist thought would spark public backlash....

October 15, 2021

Steve Wariner Releases ‘Feels Like Christmas’ Today

Nashville, Tennessee - Multi-Grammy®, CMA, and ACM Award-winning performer Steve Wariner has released a new Christmas album, Feels Like Christmas Time, today, October 15. The album features newly imagined arrangements of Christmas classics including “Silent Night,” “The First Noel” and...

October 15, 2021

Border Patrol Agents Confiscate Counterfeit Vaccine Cards at Checkpoints Across U.S.

While much attention has been focused on the fallout of increased illegal immigration and crime at the southern border, Customs and Border Patrol agents also say they are routinely finding packages shipped from China containing fake COVID-19 vaccination cards. CBP...

October 15, 2021

Arizona Border Patrol Seizes 50 Pounds of Fentanyl

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from the Tucson Sector Wednesday announced that it had seized a massive quantity of the extremely lethal drug fentanyl. "U.S. Border Patrol agents working the Interstate 19 Immigration Checkpoint near Amado, Arizona, seized over...

October 14, 2021

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai to Hold Forum on Arizona Audit Findings

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, who wrote the portion of the Maricopa County ballot audit addressing the signatures on the return envelopes of mail-in ballots, is holding a forum on Thursday to discuss findings of the Arizona election audit. When addressing the...