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Leftists are once again calling for TikTok to censor even more free speech, demonstrating a complete obliviousness to the threats posed by the communist Chinese government-tied app TikTok to national security and consumers’ data. TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the Chinese-backed app’s handling of personal data and its potential dangers to children. GOP congressional
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The Big Tech censorship hydra has once again reared its head, this time lashing out at pro-life digital news outlet LifeSite. YouTube issued two strikes against LifeSite co-founder and Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen’s channel, according to screenshots included in a LifeSiteNews report. The platform claimed one of the channel’s videos violated its “hate speech” policy. The
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A U.S. base in Syria’s Al Omar region came under attack Friday after the U.S. conducted retaliatory airstrikes on an Iran-backed group, Reuters reported, citing a security source and local media. The Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed late Thursday that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted precision airstrikes against facilities in Syria used by the Islamic
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MSNBC keeps coming up with reasons to oppose a potential presidential campaign by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The latest reason came on Thursday from The 11th Hour guest host Mehdi Hasan and Crooked Media podcaster Juanita Tolliver where they lamented DeSantis’s popularity will likely increase because he “tortured” prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Referencing the recent
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Former President Donald Trump leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the 2024 GOP primary by a massive two-digit margin, doubling the support of DeSantis’ share, according to a poll released Friday. Trump tops a crowded field of Republican presidential contenders at 50% – a 26-percentage point lead over the Florida governor – according to a
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Ahead of Thursday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring TikTok CEO Shou Chew, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had their flagship morning news shows spouting off tales of possible despair and financial ruin from TikTok influencers the Chinese-owned social media app paid to fly to Washington to appear as props.
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(Reminder: Every episode is now in the Unwoke section of our new podcast page. I’ll still be doing teaser blurb posts in Columns as reminders that new episodes are up.) Before anyone becomes unhinged about the this episode’s title, please remember that both Kevin and I voted for Trump and will gladly do so again. It’s just getting
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Gary Varvel Gary Varvel is the editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1957, Varvel was drawn to cartoons as a child when he saw a copy of MAD magazine. His freshman year at Danville High School in Danville, Indiana, Varvel won his first cartoon contest held by the school newspaper.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order directing the FBI to “use its authority” on people who protested at school board meetings led to “intimidating parents into silence,” an attorney testified at a Thursday House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. Tyson Langhofer, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the world’s largest legal organization focused on free speech, argued
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) drew the ire of Democrats, Republican internationalists, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week when he said that the U.S. shouldn’t interfere in a “territorial dispute” between Ukraine and Russia and that the war wasn’t in the “vital interests” of the U.S. The backlash to DeSantis’s remarks was intense and made
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The dishwasher was crammed full of dirty dishes, company would be arriving shortly and (wouldn’t you know it) I had only enough detergent to fill one of the two dispensers in my dishwasher. I decided to use what I had and hope for the best. Amazingly, my dishes got just as clean as when I
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MSNBC come up with a new reason to oppose pro-life laws on Wednesday’s Chris Jansing Reports: they make it more difficult for women to give birth. If that sounds confusing, Jansing urged viewers to “Imagine this, you’re nine months pregnant, about to deliver, but the nearest hospital is now an hour away. That scenario could be reality in Northern Idaho. Bonner
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During his presidency, Barack Obama made a notorious error by not giving priority to filling judicial vacancies. However, unlike Obama, Donald Trump learned from this mistake, likely due to encouragement from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and made filling vacancies a priority. Although Joe Biden modeled his presidency after Obama’s, he did not repeat Obama’s mistake,
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Vietnam continues to gain economic freedom, as confirmed by the latest edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom ranking. The Index ranks a total of 176 countries based on how economically free or unfree they are. The comprehensive rating is based on twelve categories of freedoms. The Index divides countries into five groups,
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Early voting for the highly contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court race began Tuesday, which will determine whether the Court retains or loses its conservative majority. Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz and conservative Justice Dan Kelly will face off on April 4 for the vacant seat left behind by conservative Justice Patience Roggensack. “The stakes in this race
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All political acts aimed at overawing foes are designed by definition to have a deliberate “moral effect.” At the far end of the spectrum is terrorism, whose goal is to create fear, anxiety, and a sense of helplessness among the targeted. It deliberately employs extreme, deliberate cruelty in the furtherance of a “noble cause,” made
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An illegal immigrant from Bulgaria was found lying in a stranger’s bed at the northern border, according to a statement from Swanton sector Border Patrol Chief Robert Garcia Monday. Border Patrol agents found the illegal immigrant after he crossed near Mooers Forks, New York, Garcia said in a social media post. The northern border with
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