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August 2, 2021

Study: Democrats’ Capital Gains Tax Hike Could Cost More Than 745,000 Jobs

A new Democratic proposal to increase the capital gains tax could cost 745,000 jobs, a study published by the Regional Economic Models Inc. (REMI) projects. The Sensible Taxation and Equity Promotion (STEP) Act, which would tax unrealized capital gains when heirs inherit...

August 2, 2021

Commentary: The Elites’ Abuse of Average Americans

When I went to pick up my laundry last week, one of the employees, who had just finished folding my clothes, began weeping. “This is the last load I’ll ever do here,” she said in a choked voice. “They’re letting...

August 2, 2021

University Refuses to Rehire Math Professor Who Criticized Slavery Reparations

Saint Joseph’s University will not renew its contract with math Professor Gregory Manco despite the fact that a three-month investigation into his Twitter history found he had not violated any campus policies. Manco has been a non-tenured assistant professor of...

August 2, 2021

Corporations Silent on Why They Pulled Funding from Republicans Who Questioned an Election, but Not Democrats Who Did the Same

Corporations were silent on why they chose to suspend political contributions to Republicans, but not Democrats who have objected to election results. More than 15 major U.S. companies that announced they would suspend giving money to members of Congress following the Jan....

August 2, 2021

Terrible TV Ratings Leave NBC, Advertisers Worried: Report

NBC Universal and its advertisers are becoming worried about the success of Olympic broadcasting as TV ratings plunge and star athletes struggle, Variety reported on Tuesday. Low TV viewing numbers and early exits from star athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have caused...

August 2, 2021

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protestor Sentenced to 9 Years in First Trial Under the National Security Law

A Hong Kong pro-democracy protestor was sentenced to nine years in prison in the first prosecution under the country’s new national security law, the Associated Press reported. Tong Ying-ki was convicted Tuesday on charges of inciting secession and terrorism for allegedly driving...

August 2, 2021

Big Tech Profits Continue to Surge, Latest Earnings Show

Big Tech companies reported massive, record-breaking earnings figures as their sales continued to surge amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter all beat earnings estimates and showed large revenue growth, executives for the tech companies said during earnings calls...

August 2, 2021

Columbia Medical School Will Teach Students How to ‘Disrupt Racism’ and Confront Microaggressions

Columbia University has developed new programming to help black and Hispanic medical students “disrupt racism” and confront microaggressions they could face. A medical school professor, who is also the diversity director, said that the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota...

August 2, 2021

House Education Committee’s Top Republican Tells Secretary to Purge CRT-Related Material

Faced with nationwide pushback against its plan to prioritize grant funding for American history and civics programs informed by critical race theory (CRT), the Department of Education clarified its thinking. Perhaps. Secretary Miguel Cardona's blog post on "invitational" priorities in...

August 2, 2021

Athletes Fighting Biological Males in Women’s Sports Take Their Stories to Washington

"We’re not often heard,” Cynthia Monteleone told a trio of female senators Thursday afternoon on Capitol Hill. “Though we are just three of thousands that this is happening to.” Monteleone is a world champion track athlete who competed against a...

August 2, 2021

NPR Will Now Allow Journalists to Take Part in Partisan Activist Demonstrations

National Public Radio this month said its reporters will now be permitted to take part in public partisan demonstrations and activist events of which the news service approves. In a revision of its internal ethics handbook, the outlet said that...

August 2, 2021

Commentary: Nope, I Won’t Mask up Again

Last March, I followed the CDC’s advice and got fully vaccinated against COVID-19. I did so more out of a sense of civic duty than any actual fear that I might contract the virus. It was just an easy and...

August 2, 2021

Bipartisan Call for Biden to Appoint New ‘Border Czar’ as Immigration Crisis Grows

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are asking President Joe Biden to appoint former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to a special executive position to manage the border crisis. In a letter to Biden and DHS...

August 2, 2021

Lincoln Project Donors Silent on Underage Grooming Scandal of Founder John Weaver

The Lincoln Project is primarily known for 2 things: their young male grooming scandal, and neocons raising money from liberal elites. Now, the Lincoln Project is running ads going after Trump and Republican donors as well as advertisers on conservative media, attempting...

August 2, 2021

Los Angeles Students Will be Forced to Undergo Weekly Testing Even If They’re Vaccinated

The Los Angeles Unified School District this week announced that students and employees returning to in-person instruction in the fall would be forced to undergo weekly testing even if they’ve been vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2. “All students and employees, both vaccinated...

August 2, 2021

Woodson Center Celebrates 40 Years of Transforming Poor Neighborhoods as Founder Announces Retirement

The life-changing impact that Robert Woodson has had on the lives of countless individuals and communities was highlighted Thursday evening during a 40th-anniversary celebration of the center named for him in Washington, D.C. One after another, the grassroots leaders and individuals who...

August 2, 2021

DOJ Drops Investigation into Gov. Cuomo’s COVID Nursing Home Policy

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday celebrated the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to drop its investigation into his policy that sent COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, but with several other probes ongoing, his fate is still unclear. The...

August 2, 2021

Trump Has Amassed over $100 Million to Fund 2022 Campaigns

Former President Donald J. Trump has amassed a political war chest of more than $100 million, an extraordinary haul for an ex-president that will allow him to play a major role in the 2022 elections when Republicans want to re-capture...

August 2, 2021

Commentary: The Numbers Don’t Support Scapegoating the Unvaccinated

If you’re tired of the pandemic and just want to go back to normal, David Frum at The Atlantic has news for you: It’s all the stupid people who refuse to take the vaccine that are prolonging our COVID misery. Oh, wait, that’s...

August 2, 2021

Michigan’s New Diversity and Inclusion Director Receives $130,800 Salary

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is paying Rané Garcia $130,801 per year for a new position to lead the agency’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative. MDE reported Garcia's salary in response to a Freedom of Information Act request...

August 1, 2021

Study Used by CDC to Support New Mask Mandates Based on a Non-American Vaccine, Rejected by Peer Review

It has been determined that one of the studies used by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to justify the strict new mask mandates was not only rejected by peer review, but was also based on a vaccine that is...

August 1, 2021

Commentary: Break Up Big Tech Before It’s Too Late

With the rise of populist and bipartisan resentment against Big Tech monopolies along with the recent appointment of Big Tech opponent Lina Khan as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, government action against these companies seems imminent. People are waking up to the fact that...

August 1, 2021

Commentary: The Case for the Unconstitutionality of Abortion

In the April issue of the conservative journal First Things, the esteemed natural law philosopher John Finnis wrote an essay titled “Abortion Is Unconstitutional.” Finnis’ basic argument was that the traditional conservative or originalist stance on abortion and the Supreme...

August 1, 2021

Biden to Push for Amnesty in Reconciliation Package

In a meeting at the White House with Democratic lawmakers, Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for the radical notion of including mass amnesty for illegal aliens in the proposed reconciliation bill, according to CNN. Biden met with 11 lawmakers – five senators...

August 1, 2021

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Vos Expands Election Probe

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said Friday he plans to hire more investigators and anticipates allowing more time for a probe into the 2020 presidential contest for Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral-College votes, the Associated Press has reported. The official vote...

August 1, 2021

House of Representatives Passes Bill to Allow Illegal Aliens to Work as Staffers

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill allowing illegal aliens to work as House staffers, while also increasing the budget for staffing by 21 percent, as reported by the Washington Examiner. The bill, H.R. 4346, was introduced by Congressman...

August 1, 2021

Texas Border City Sues Biden Administration over Illegal Immigration

The Texas border city of Laredo has sued the Biden administration, hoping to halt its policy of transferring several hundred people a day into the city who have illegally entered the U.S. through two Texas Border Patrol sectors: Rio Grande...

August 1, 2021

Commentary: Historians Selling Out for Leftist Star, Nikole Hannah-Jones

The University of North Carolina’s decision on June 30 to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones came about through a torrent of threats (often tweeted), profanities, doxxings, and assaults—tactics that have become increasingly commonplace among professional activists and racial grievance-mongers. Hannah-Jones, of...

August 1, 2021

Biden DOJ Sues Texas over Executive Order Banning Transportation of Sick Illegal Aliens

The Biden Justice Department on Friday sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott seeking to overturn an executive order prohibiting the ground transportation of illegal aliens who could be carrying COVID-19. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s team argued in U.S. District Court...

August 1, 2021

Exclusive: Innovo Management Presents ‘Hometown Hero’ Contest

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Hometown Hero is a program designed to help a musician(s) who went above and beyond during the pandemic to help others. Hometown Hero is open to all music genres from anywhere in the world! Anyone can nominate...

August 1, 2021

Michigan Gov. Whitmer Signs Driver’s License Extensions into Law

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three bills dealing with the consequences of a 15-months backlog at the Secretary of State’s office extending the validation of state driver’s licenses and ID cards. “The pandemic was tough on all of us, and these...

July 31, 2021

Former Michigan Senator Carl Levin Dead at 87

Former Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat who served 36 years and rose to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee, died Thursday at the age of 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University in Detroit announced his death Thursday night, describing...

July 31, 2021

Commentary: Biden’s Approval Rating Is Dropping Fast

In recent days, conservative media outfits have gleefully presented one of the least surprising headlines of modern times. Namely, that Joe Biden’s presidential approval rating has sunk below the waves. In the latest Rasmussen poll, Biden is now at a 47...

July 31, 2021

Key Inflation Measure Spikes Again, Hits Highest Level Since 1991

A consumer price measurement used by the Federal Reserve to track inflation spiked again in June and hit its highest level since 1991, government data showed. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index increased 4% over the 12 months between...

July 31, 2021

Newt Gingrich Commentary: The Pelosi Dictatorship and the Destruction of American Freedom

As a 20-year member of Congress and four-year Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, let me speak bluntly and directly. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the greatest threat to constitutional liberty in our lifetime. With the passive support of an...

July 31, 2021

Biden Requiring Federal Government Workers to Show Proof of Vaccination

President Joe Biden on Thursday said his administration will require all federal employees and contractors to show proof of vaccination, a move met with swift opposition from Texas elected officials. Federal workers or contractors who can’t show a proof of...

July 31, 2021

Commentary: Ashli Babbitt’s Mom Speaks

The only video Ashli Babbitt’s mom has seen of her daughter on January 6 is a clip of her walking from Donald Trump’s speech to Capitol Hill. “That brings me peace,” Micki Witthoeft, Ashli’s mom, told me by phone on...

July 31, 2021

Report: 1.9 Million Households Owe $15 Billion in Back Rent as Eviction Moratorium Expires

Up to 1.95 million households across America will owe a collective $15 billion in back rent when the eviction moratorium expires Saturday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates. That number will reach 2 million by December, according to the report released Friday....

July 31, 2021

Suni Lee Wins Individual All-Around Gold

American gymnast Sunisa “Suni” Lee won gold in the women’s individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, ESPN reported. Lee received a total score of 57.433, beating out Brazilian Rebeca Andrade’s score of 57.298 and becoming the sixth...

July 31, 2021

Commentary: Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum

On July 19, Hillsdale College released the 1776 Curriculum, a package of American history and civics materials for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The curriculum offers students and teachers a more traditional and patriotic approach to American history than the...

July 31, 2021

Health Officials Less Confident in COVID Vaccine Efficacy with Rise of Delta Variant

Public health confidence in the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine appears to be waning as officials warn of enhanced danger — even for vaccinated individuals — from the "Delta variant" of the SARS-Cov-2 virus. For most of the past year...

July 31, 2021

In Suppression of First Amendment, Biden Forbids Immigration Judges from Using the Term ‘Alien’

The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an order last week demanding that immigration judges no longer use the term “alien” when referring to illegal aliens in court or in their written opinions, according to the Washington Free Beacon. The...

July 31, 2021

Detroit, Michigan Voters to Decide on Left-Wing ‘Proposal P’ on Tuesday

When Detroit, Michigan voters head to the polls for next Tuesday's primary, they will decide on a referendum concerning a major proposed revision of the city charter which would institute numerous left-wing programs and reforms. The ballot item, known as...

July 30, 2021

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Audit Liaison Ken Bennett Confirm Bennett Will Remain as Senate Liaison, Pledge Bennett Will Have ‘Full Access’

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann released a statement on Friday that confirmed former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett will continue to serve as the Senate's Liason to the ongoing audit. Further, Fann promised that Bennett will be granted "full...

July 30, 2021

Biden Admin Will Keep a Trump-Era Public Health Order Expelling Most Migrants in Place, Citing COVID-19 Variants

The Biden administration will keep a Trump-era public health order used to expel most migrants from the U.S. in place, citing COVID-19 variants, Reuters reported Thursday. President Joe Biden reportedly planned to lift public health order Title 42 restrictions for migrant...