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Middle school girls’ track in West Virginia has been embroiled in controversy. Now a lawsuit alleges that a trans competitor, one who was born a boy but now claims to be a girl, has been sexually harassing his/her female opponents, making crude and sexual comments. Things that would get her/him run out of school if they had been said by a boy who still claims to be a boy.

Before we go any further, Joe Biden, who critics say took steps to destroy girls’ sports by amending Title IX to include boys who claim they are girls, tells you all to support girls’ sports.

Last month, five middle school athletes took a brave stance when they refused to compete against Becky Pepper-Jackson, the boy who claims to be a girl at the center of this story. They were rewarded for this brave stance by being BANNED from future competitions by an activist coach who, and this conjecture, we are assuming gets liberal with accusing others of “transphobia.”

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

In a stunning display of irony and contradiction that borders on the absurd, an associate dean tasked with upholding gender equality at Columbia University cut off and muted a fellow professor during a faculty senate meeting earlier this month when the latter professor warned her colleagues that the Ivy League school had been infiltrated by outsiders with “known ties to terrorist organizations.”

And yes, these are groups that literally support terrorists and who are known for their oppressive attitudes towards women.

The irony of a gender equality dean silencing warnings about groups with known oppressive attitudes towards women was not lost on anyone who observed the incident, which took place via Zoom on May 3, mere hours after Hamilton Hall was overrun by a mob of Hamas-supporting students.

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Excerpt from www.lifenews.com

Diana Johnson and Stella Creasy have tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make extreme changes to our abortion laws.

How would they change the law?

Both amendments would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.

Diana Johnson’s amendment (NC1) would remove offences that make it illegal for a woman to perform her own abortion at any point right through to birth.

Stella Creasy’s amendment (NC40) would remove key deterrents against performing an abortion at any point right through to birth.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, pro-abortion states have begun devising measures to shelter abortionists whose operations were hampered by states that chose to protect unborn life. These so-called “abortion shield laws” — many of which are likely unconstitutional — will defeat any ability for pro-life states and their citizens to hold abortionists accountable for violating their health and safety standards. Diligently enforced, shield laws invite a new war between the states over not just the lives of unborn children, but also our system of government.

The extradition clause of the Constitution requires that “[a] Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.” In short, a state cannot turn down another state’s request to extradite fugitives within its borders.

Shield laws, such as those in New York and Massachusetts, hug the edges of the extradition clause by prohibiting the surrender of non-fugitives. Accordingly, a person who promotes abortions while physically present within a pro-abortion state cannot be handed over to a pro-life state in which the abortion has occurred. After all, he has not actually fled from the pro-life state. As The New York Times points out, such laws de facto protect those who prescribe abortion pills through telemedicine to women out-of-state.

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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is backing an Indiana high school student’s legal challenge of how her school shut down her pro-life club because it was accused of “being too ‘political.’”

“Students don’t forfeit their free speech when they walk into the school building. All students have the constitutional right to express their ideas without fear of being silenced by school officials and having their clubs derecognized,” ADF stated in a May 8 news release.

In April, ADF joined legal firm Charitable Allies’ appeal of a federal court’s decision that had sided with the public school in the case, E.D. v. Noblesville School District.

In 2021, a freshman student at Noblesville High School (NHS) in Indiana started a pro-life club aimed at “[raising] awareness and [generating] discussion about the abortion issue while also doing something about it through volunteering,” according to the news release.

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

During two distinct occasions on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito raised concerns about the current state of America. They both highlighted the perilous decline of freedom of speech and criticized Washington, D.C., as a hotbed of cancel culture, describing it as “hideous.”

Justice Thomas addressed a gathering of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama, while Justice Alito gave a commencement speech at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio. Both conservative judges depicted a grim scenario but also urged for proactive measures and provided words of encouragement.

During the event in Alabama, Justice Thomas was asked to comment by the moderator, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, to share his thoughts on working “in a world that seems meanspirited.”

“I think there’s challenges to that,” Justice Thomas said. “We’re in a world and we—certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been—just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible.”

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A federal court in California approved a $62 million settlement recently in a class action alleging that Google violated the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of users by tracking their location and storing that information even though users had disabled the relevant account setting. As a Google user, you might be asking how to receive your portion of that fund.

The answer is that you won’t see a cent of it. The settlement instead will pay the entire fund (after the lawyers’ fees and costs are paid) to groups engaged in extreme left-wing advocacy work or work that is not targeted to benefit the class of Google users.

Courts have allowed this practice, known as cy pres, to proliferate despite ever easier and more inexpensive ways of paying small amounts to individual class members. This is one of the many ways that our legal system funds the Left, but it is even more insidious because it takes money that belongs to individual people, without their consent, and directs it to organizations and causes that are contrary to their values and interests.

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Joe Biden is pulling out all the stops to make his failing economy sound just a bit better. His latest move is to dump soaring coffee prices from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) because it is just one more metric that is driving his data to look bad.

By dumping the soaring coffee prices, Biden’s Department of Labor can make his economic data sound better.

But coffee is a major part of what most Americans buy each month — and often daily — in their day-to-day lives. Dumping coffee is removing a key expense that 73 percent of the country spend.

Grocery prices have soared 30 percent. Gas prices are also soaring.

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A new study reveals that the current youngest generation, Generation Z, is facing greater financial struggles due to low income and a higher debt-to-income ratio than Millennials did at the same point in their youth.

As reported by Breitbart, the study from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion surveyed 614 members of Gen Z, also known as “Zoomers,” between the ages of 22 and 24, comparing their findings to a similar survey of 623 Millennials who were between the ages of 22 and 24 ten years ago.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, Millennials on average were making an income of roughly $39,394; when adjusted for inflation, the income of the average Millennial around that time was $51,852. By contrast, Zoomers in the fourth quarter of 2023 were making an average income of $45,493, over $7,000 less than what Millennials made ten years ago. In 2013, Millennials had an average debt-to-income (DTI) ratio of 11.76%; Zoomers today have a DTI ratio of 16.05%.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s paralegal testified on Friday that his office deleted from their evidence three pages of phone records between convicted liar Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson without notifying former President Donald Trump’s legal team, according to reports.

Trump attorney Emil Bove questioned paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider on Friday about three pages of 2018 phone records between Davidson and Cohen that Bragg’s office had deleted, according to CNN. Additional phone records between Daniels manager Gina Rodriguez and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard regarding Daniels’ claim about her alleged affair were also deleted, according to The Epoch Times.

The altered call records were submitted into evidence, but Bragg’s office did not tell Trump’s team that three pages were missing, The Epoch Times reported.

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Confusion reigns on Capitol Hill. What is the American policy on Israel, and what is the Democratic Party’s policy? Where did the money Congress sent for the war on Hamas go? Who placed a hold on what, and who’s in charge, anyway?

President Joe Biden — first elected to the Senate over half a century ago — is more than old enough to know that when you set out to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one, but his last week in office is a master class in tangling, confusing, and ticking off all manner of supporters and allies. While Democrats on the ground have been in open civil war for months, the politicians in D.C. have largely held it together. That fragile hold is coming apart, in no small part because of the president’s own decisions.

The week began with Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was marked with more national attention after Hamas’ Oct. 7 rampage and amidst anti-Israel campus unrest. The president used the day to call America’s relationship with Israel “ironclad,” and the White House was eager to promote this. Congress had committed billions in both offensive and defensive aid to Israel as part of its massive foreign aid package (and to increase Republican support). In Washington by and large, things seemed normal.

By Wednesday night, it was all on its head. The president announced in an interview with CNN he’d be stopping certain weapons shipments to Israel in retaliation for its continued offensive operations. Congress went into a tizzy.

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Ronald Reagan’s classic 1980 challenge to voters, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” could be the end of President Joe Biden should former President Donald Trump pull it out in the election debates.

When Reagan used it in the only debate with former President Jimmy Carter, most people facing high inflation said “no,” and Reagan won the presidency in an electoral landslide.

This year, voters have faced inflation and sustained high prices, and the question asked in a new Rasmussen Reports survey found that people agree with those in 1980.

In the results shared with Secrets on Monday morning, 54% said they are not better off than they were when Biden beat Trump. Just 39% said they are, and that number was pushed up by partisan Democrats.

 

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CNN host Fareed Zakaria is openly challenging the legitimacy of the criminal case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) is trying against Donald Trump.

Right now, Trump is spending the majority of the workweek sitting in a Manhattan courtroom as his trial for allegedly falsifying business records — a case that Bragg has attempted to spin into an instance of election interference — drags on.

“I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”

But Zakaria doubts that anyone not named Trump would be facing the same situation.

Zakaria made the admission on Sunday while arguing the Democratic Party is fractured behind President Joe Biden while the Republican Party is “uniting behind Trump.”

“Whatever opposition [Trump] faced in the primaries has largely melted away. And the trials against him keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believed that his prosecutors are politically motivated,” Zakaria said.

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Congressional Democrats insist that the SAVE Act — which requires proof of citizenship to establish eligibility to vote in federal elections — is unnecessary because federal law (18 USC § 611) already prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections.

Those making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren’t allowed to require proof of citizenship.

It’s therefore shockingly easy for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference. Anyone — even an illegal alien or other noncitizen — can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.

This is all on the honor system. No proof of citizenship is required.

It’s not just that state officials — who are responsible for federal voter registration and elections in our country — don’t verify citizenship in this context; it’s that the Supreme Court has told them that they’re not allowed to do so. In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1 (2013), the Court held that the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, also known as the “Motor Voter” law) prohibits states from requiring proof of citizenship when processing federal voter registration forms.

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Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said she will edit her new book after being called out for a section defending President Biden’s actions during the dignified transfer of the U.S. service members killed in a terror attack at the Kabul airport in 2021.

As Axios reported, Psaki argues in her new book “Say More” that Biden didn’t look at his watch until after the ceremony was over—which contradicts photo and video documentation as well as accounts from Gold Star families present during the transfer.

Reality check: Psaki’s new account is at odds with fact-checks at the time, news agencies’ photos from the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, and on-the-record statements from Gold Star families who were there.

• The Associated Press photographer on the tarmac snapped two photos of Biden looking at his watch twice and 10 minutes apart, as fact-checkers at USA Today and Snopes noted soon afterward.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

I always try to preface any poll story with “It’s a poll, things can change, etc.”

But these latest numbers in the New York Times/Siena Research poll for the battleground states are — as even CNN’s Harry Enten admits — an “absolute disaster” for Joe Biden.

Why? Look at how far Trump is up in Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia, as Enten explains, in the head-to-head numbers.

“AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER”: President Trump post MASSIVE leads in battleground states over Crooked Joe Biden in New York Times poll.

NEVADA: Trump +13
GEORGIA: Trump +9
ARIZONA: Trump +6
PENNSYLVANIA: Trump +3
WISCONSIN: Trump +1 pic.twitter.com/f92WSa7i4l

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

For all of Alvin Bragg‘s attempts to hijack the news cycle with a cavalcade of scorned friends and flings of Donald Trump, the former president has proven stubbornly resilient in his swing-state leads over President Joe Biden.

According to the latest slate of head-to-head polling from the New York Times and Siena College, the Republican is up by 14 percentage points over the Democratic incumbent among registered voters in Nevada, 10 points in Georgia, 7 points in Michigan, 7 points in Arizona, and 3 points in Pennsylvania. Only in Wisconsin does Trump trail Biden by 2 points, but among likely voters, Trump actually leads by 1 in Wisconsin, yet he trails by 1 point among likely voters in Michigan. His lead persists or grows in every other state.

A separate poll from the Financial Times explains why the sexcapades of Stormy Daniels haven’t cut through Trump’s lead: the continuous catastrophe that is Bidenomics.