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June 15, 2021

Mediation Talks Between Florida, CDC Unsuccessful in Cruise Ship Battle

Mediation talks between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the state of Florida have been unsuccessful, as the federal agency and the state duke it out in court over who controls the cruise ship industry's return to...

June 15, 2021

Commentary: Federalism is Key to Surviving a Divided Nation

We live in a divided nation. Our politics have become not just polarized, but toxic. For a country founded on the principles of individual liberty, democratic choice in representative government, and republican protection of natural rights, America has seemingly lost...

June 15, 2021

Study Finds Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine 90 Percent Effective

Novavax announced on Monday that its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective, according to a press release on Novavax’s website. The phase-3 trial enrolled 29,960 participants ages 18 and older in the U.S. and Mexico. The study found that 77...

June 15, 2021

New Immigration Policy Will Expand Access to Work Permits and Provide Deportation Relief for Crime Victims

Some immigrants who were victims of crimes will be able to more easily apply for work permits and allowed relief from deportation, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday. The new process will allow immigrants with U visas, granted to...

June 15, 2021

Commentary: Anatomy of the Woke Madness

Wokeism has become our most popular secular religion—at least for a moment dethroning climate change. It reduces all of the past and present into puerile binaries between “whites” and “non-whites.” Its aim is for the present generation to rewrite our...

June 15, 2021

Voter I.D. Constitutional Amendment Proposed in Pennsylvania

A pair of Pennsylvania lawmakers said Friday that state residents themselves should decide the stringency of the state’s voter identification law. The push comes after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said he’d never support strengthening existing voter I.D. law – one of the...

June 15, 2021

U.S. Investigates Possible Leak at Chinese Nuclear Power Plant, Report

The U.S. is reportedly investigating a possible leak at a China nuclear power plant in the city of Taishan. The possible leak was reported to U.S. officials by the French company Framatome, which helps to operate the plant. Framatone has...

June 15, 2021

Wisconsin Bill Targets Unequal Private Funding of Elections, A Major Concern in 2020

Abill passed this week by the Wisconsin State Assembly would forbid local municipalities from accepting private funds for election management, directing those funds to pass through the state government and be equitably distributed throughout Wisconsin. The measure is a response...

June 15, 2021

Putin Flatly Denies That He’s Behind Recent U.S. Cyberattacks

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied that he was behind the recent cyberattacks across the United States, calling the allegations against him “farcical.” “We have been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin told NBC News Monday. “Election interference, cyberattacks and so on...

June 15, 2021

Eighteen Months Later, Democrats’ First Trump Impeachment Tale in Tatters

In the first of their two drives to impeach Donald Trump, Democrats had a simple storyline: The then-president abused his power by requesting an investigation of Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine when Joe Biden's son had done nothing wrong. That...

June 15, 2021

DeSantis Calls Out Biden, Big Tech on Fox News

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called out President Joe Biden and Silicon Valley Big Tech companies for caring more about China’s interests than “middle America” on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News program. Biden’s big event last week was meeting with world leaders...

June 14, 2021

Florida Colleges and Universities Join Name, Image, and Likeness Law Beginning July 1st

Beginning July 1st, a new law will allow student athletes in Florida who play for a college or university the ability to profit from third-party organizations using their name, image, and likeness or NIL. While NIL was set to be...

June 14, 2021

Commentary: Media Begins Its Meddling in the 2024 Primary

In March 2018, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) took to the lectern to announce he had received “assurances” that President Trump was not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. “We have a system based upon the rule of law in this country.”...

June 14, 2021

New Movement Teaches American Kids How to Think, Not What to Think

An American educator is persuading schools to implement viewpoint diversity in the classroom. Erin McLaughlin is a teacher from Pennsylvania who is making headlines with her approach to classroom instruction. She argues that viewpoint diversity, which is teaching students how to think...

June 14, 2021

Commentary: The Rise of ‘Bull Moose’ Populism Is What’s Giving Life to the GOP

Former President Teddy Roosevelt felt “strong as a bull moose” after losing the Republican presidential nomination in 1912. Now, thanks to President Donald Trump’s legacy, that “bull moose” energy is on the winning side of the GOP’s 2022 primary season....

June 14, 2021

Husband of Ashli Babbitt Files Lawsuit to Demand Name of Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Her

The widower of Ashi Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was killed by a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, has filed a lawsuit seeking to finally uncover the name of the guilty officer, the New York Post reports. Aaron Babbitt filed...

June 14, 2021

Albion College Makes Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’ Required Reading for First-Year Students

Albion College recently announced its selection for the 2021 Common Reading Experience: "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi. The Richard M. Smith Common Reading Experience is a mandatory program for all first-year students. According to the school’s website, “all of...

June 14, 2021

Biden Lifts Economic Ban on Chinese Military Tech Company

Joe Biden signed an executive order updating the United States’ list of blacklisted Chinese companies, dropping the ban on at least one company that was originally put on the list by President Donald Trump, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Biden lifted the...

June 14, 2021

Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Skyrocketed During the Pandemic, CDC Report Shows

Suicide-related emergency room visits among both adolescent girls and boys spiked amid the pandemic and continued to surge as lockdowns persisted, according to a government health report. Emergency room (ER) mental health visits increased 31% among children aged 12-17 years old in...

June 14, 2021

Biden Bureau of Land Management Nominee Tracy Stone-Manning Was Involved in ‘Eco-Terrorism’ Case, Resulted in College Roommate’s Conviction, Prison Sentence, Court Records Show

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, received legal immunity to testify in a 1993 criminal trial, court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The trial resulted in a 17 month...

June 14, 2021

Four States to Slash COVID-19 Unemployment Aid Saturday

Four states will be cutting pandemic unemployment increases three months early, ending the supplemental $300 in federal aid. Alaska, Iowa, Missouri, and Mississippi will end pandemic-related unemployment relief on June 12. An additional 21 Republican-led states will slash federal aid...

June 14, 2021

New York Mayoral Candidate Refuses to Answer Whether She Thinks the U.S. Is Comparable to the Taliban

New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley would not say whether she thinks the U.S. is comparable to the Taliban Thursday, video shows. Wiley was questioned about Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments comparing the U.S. and Israel to the...

June 14, 2021

James Murdoch Gave $20 Million to Biden, Progressive Groups in 2020

James Murdoch funneled $100 million into his Quadrivium Foundation, which gives to many progressive causes, and donated another $20 million to Democratic groups, CNBC reported. James and his wife Kathryn Murdoch, who are notoriously active political donors, gave $20 million to...

June 14, 2021

The Two Chinese Scientists Who Shipped Live Ebola Viruses from Canadian Lab to Wuhan Lab Seem to Have Disappeared

The two Chinese scientists who were expelled from a high-security lab in Canada two years ago for “possible breaches of security protocols,” have allegedly disappeared amid an ongoing investigation. The scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, had their...

June 14, 2021

Commentary: Another January 6 Falsehood: $30 Million in Damages to the Capitol

The U.S. Capitol Police on Monday morning conducted what it called a “routine” training exercise on the grounds of the Capitol. The stagecraft, almost five months to the day from the January 6 protest, involved emergency vehicles and helicopters. The agency warned...

June 14, 2021

Val Demings Raises $1M for Senate Run, Touts Endorsements

U.S. Rep. Val Demings (D-FL-10) raised $1 million in the first few days of her campaign against Florida Senator Marco Rubio for the 2022 election. The early momentum comes as Democrats will be backing Demings, who will likely be the...

June 13, 2021

FLASHBACK: Atlanta’s Fox 5 Reported on COVID-19 Outbreak in October at Fulton County Election Preparation Center Warehouse Where Absentee Ballots from Drop Boxes Were Delivered

A little more than two weeks prior to the 2020 election, Atlanta's Fox5 TV reported on a COVID-19 outbreak at the Fulton County Election warehouse.

June 13, 2021

DeSantis Reports $7.5 Million in May Contributions, Continues to Significantly Outpace Rivals

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried raised only approximately $215,000 in May, according to newly filed campaign finance reports. Fried’s political action committee, Florida Consumers First, saw exactly $214,832 come in from primarily small-donor contributions. However, the May numbers do not...

June 13, 2021

Commentary: Make Communist China Pay for COVID-19

As the world slowly begins to emerge from the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and American elites develop an interest in the formerly dismissed Wuhan lab leak theory, it is time to focus attention where it belongs: punishing a rogue...

June 13, 2021

Commentary: Combating Global Food Insecurity

As COVID-19, violent conflicts, and natural disasters persist around the world, an increasing number of people face an additional crisis: food insecurity. Although food insecurity existed in many low- and middle-income countries prior to 2020, it is clear that the...

June 13, 2021

Commentary: Minimum Wage Hikes Led to Lower Worker Compensation, New Research Shows

Opponents of minimum wage laws tend to focus their criticism on one particular adverse consequence: by artificially raising the price of labor, they reduce employment, particularly for the most vulnerable in society. “Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the...

June 13, 2021

Activists Look to the Future of Oil Pipelines Following Keystone XL Cancellation

After the cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline struck a blow to the oil industry, energy jobs activists are pushing back by warning of increased costs and touting the benefits of transporting oil via pipeline. TC Energy Corporation announced on...

June 13, 2021

Trump Justice Department Had Previously Been Investigating House Democrats for Corruption: Report

Officials from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice had reportedly been investigating House Democrats for possibly corruption, even going so far as to subpoena Apple for data from several members’ iPhones and other devices, as reported by ABC News. The claim...

June 13, 2021

Six Times in a Row, Becerra Refuses to Admit Partial Birth Abortion Is Illegal

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra repeatedly refused Thursday to acknowledge that partial birth abortion is illegal in the U.S. Becerra falsely denied last month that there is an existing law banning partial birth abortion, apparently forgetting the law that he...

June 13, 2021

$6 Trillion Biden Budget Formally Refers to Mothers as ‘Birthing People’

Joe Biden’s proposed budget for the year 2022 was found to contain anti-scientific language that eliminates the concept of gender from the act of childbirth, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The budget plan, which costs a record-breaking total of $6...

June 13, 2021

Commentary: China’s Three-Child Policy Shows Xi Jinping Is Terrified

The Chinese government has carried out a massive population control campaign since the 1970s with the hope that it would generate economic prosperity. The government unremorsefully forced women to receive abortions, pressured or forced millions of women to be sterilized, and punished families with...

June 13, 2021

Unvaccinated Students at New Hampshire High School Marked and Tracked at Prom

Unvaccinated students who attended Exeter High School’s prom on Saturday were marked with numbers and contact traced throughout the course of the night, a school spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Students attending the event “who were unable to...

June 13, 2021

Medical Journal Article Calls ‘Whiteness’ a ‘Parasitic-Like Condition’

A recent article in an academic medical journal made the absurd declaration that being White is a “malignant” and “parasitic-like condition,” with no “permanent cure,” as reported by Fox News. The racist and pseudo-scientific claim was made in the Journal...

June 13, 2021

Florida Sales-Tax Collections Exceeds Expectations in April 2021

The month of April became the ninth consecutive month that the state of Florida exceeded its expected revenue calculations, with 56% of the total revenue gain coming from sales-tax collections. Sales-tax revenue accounted for $2.7993 billion, which is 19% or ...

June 13, 2021

Florida Rep. Crist Proposes Gun Control Measures on Campaign Trial

The former Republican governor of Florida turned Democrat congressman, who is once again mounting a gubernatorial bid, made his case for gun control during a Friday campaign appearance. "One of the most common-sense things that we can do is ban...

June 12, 2021

Florida Unemployment Claims Lowest Since Before the Pandemic

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reported the lowest number of initial unemployment claims in Florida since the week that ended March 14th, 2020. According to the DOL, the week that ended June 5th recorded an estimated 5,800 initial unemployment...

June 12, 2021

Commentary: Massive Government Spending Has Caused High Inflation Levels and a Weakening U.S. Dollar

Inflation is up 4.92 percent the past 12 months as of May, the most since July 2008’s 5.5 percent, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, amid a torrent of trillions of dollars of government spending, Federal Reserve money printing and...

June 12, 2021

Rare Heart Inflammation Following COVID-19 Vaccination Sparks Emergency CDC Meeting

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will discuss reports of a rare heart inflammation following doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in an emergency meeting, it announced Thursday. The emergency meeting, set to take place on June 18, will include updates...

June 12, 2021

Judge Halts Debt Relief Program for Farmers of Color After White Farmers Sue

A federal judge Thursday afternoon suspended a loan forgiveness program that issues relief to farmers and agricultural workers of color. Judge William Griesbach of Wisconsin’s Eastern District handed down a temporary restraining order after the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty...

June 12, 2021

Feds: Illegal Immigration Continued to Worsen in May

The surge in illegal immigration at the southern border continues to worsen, May numbers show, as the Biden administration takes more criticism for its handling of the issue. U.S. Customs and Border Protection released new data on the crisis at the southern...