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MarioGuti/iStock/Getty Images Plus Scottish police, it appears, are the real victims of the nation’s new hate-crimes laws.Since the first week that the new law went into effect, the Telegraph reported, they’ve fielded some 8,000 complaints. The number is so high that supposed hate crimes will outnumber real crimes by year’s end.The reason for the upsurge: The law has criminalized “stirring...

richjem/iStock/Getty Images Plus Election-integrity activists sat up and took notice when a Texas county successfully completed a paper-ballot hand count during the March GOP primary. Advocates of a return to hand counts and paper ballots now have more solid evidence that dependence on electronic systems isn’t the only way to go.According to a March 6 article at Texas Scorecard on...

Khaosai Wongnatthakan/iStock/Getty Images Plus As the calendar flipped to April this week, consumers in Canada were hit with a steep 23-percent increase in the nation’s carbon tax. The tax, originally instituted in 2018, is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, which climate zealots argue are leading to global warming, which creates out-of-control climate change. The federal carbon tax went...

Ilana Mercer Gaza is a desert of the dead and the dying. Let the American Super Power ride, belatedly, to the rescue. “Genocide Joe” and the foreign agents known as the “American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose Israel-First focus makes them a fifth column, or Trump with Jared Kushner and his better half: These are America’s 2024 election options.The...

AP Images Sonia Sotomayor Leftists are so frightened that Donald Trump will win the 2024 election that they’ve called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before disaster strikes.The reason: They remember what happened when the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire before Trump was elected in 2016. She died on September 18, 2020, and the seat went...

Reduxx/X Jason Lee "Alexia" Willie “Trans woman” Alexia Willie has pleaded guilty to one count of threatening to injure someone in connection with deranged, scatological rants from March through August last year.Willie — real name Jason Lee Willie — threatened a school shooting and said he would rape Christian girls in his fight for “transgender” rights. He also vowed to...

Chalffy/iStock/Getty Images Plus Just days after President Biden proclaimed March 31 “Transgender Day of Visibility,” the Daily Mail has reported what anyone not taken in by “transgender” propaganda already knew: Young people grow out of “gender dysphoria” or confusion if given the chance.It’s what your grandmother would have called a “phase.”More important than the study, though, is what it means...

nojustice/iStock/Getty Images Plus Three organizations closely associated with the Biden administration and the Democratic Party were awarded $14 billion by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday.The EPA announced the first recipients of grants from the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a creation of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Of the $20 billion doled out Thursday, Climate United...

da-kuk/iStock/Getty Images Plus Government watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) wants the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to open its books regarding its “Billions Project,” which purports to track all climate-related disasters in the United States that cost over a billion dollars. The project is often cited by the Biden administration in their push to deprive Americans of...

Twitter/X Two referendum questions proposing changes to the Wisconsin constitution passed yesterday in the state’s spring election. In an announcement released by the Wisconsin GOP earlier today, Chairman Brian Schimming stated: Victory! Wisconsin has spoken and the message is clear: elections belong to voters, not out-of-state billionaires. Thanks to the efforts by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and grassroots organizing,...

More than one in four students enrolled in government schools nationwide are now considered “chronically absent,” up from just 15 percent before the tyrannical response to COVID, revealed an analysis of data from almost 40 states. Some jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C., have rates as high as 60 percent of students chronically absent, according to news reports. One government school in Massachusetts...

12963734/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Clinton-appointed judge granted last Friday the demand by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that the ATF be prohibited from enforcing its “pistol brace” rule until all pending litigation has been resolved. Wrote U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay: “The court determines that the NRA’s motion should be granted maintain the status quo pending the resolution of...

Salena Zito LEBANON, Pennsylvania — You may not be aware that there’s a symmetry in Pennsylvania between farmers and the natural gas industry. But just walk into the Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress and Mid-Atlantic Manure Summit here at the expo center in Lebanon County, put your hands on the propane-shaped stress ball, and you’ll start to understand it.“Kind of tells...

Andrii Panchyk/iStock/Getty Images Plus Forty Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom have endorsed an amendment that would reduce the length of time during which unborn babies with Down syndrome may be aborted.Under the U.K.’s 1967 Abortion Act, “normal” babies can be aborted as late as 24 weeks, but babies considered to be disabled — a category that includes...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Liberalism, it is claimed, is associated with tolerance. But you wouldn’t know it from a new study finding that of the 10 states with the most religious-discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eight gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.Not surprisingly, there’s a secularism connection, too: Of the 15 states with...

AP Images Glenn Youngkin Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun-control bills on Tuesday, signed into law two gun-control bills that have little consequence, and sent back six others with amendments for the state’s Legislature to consider.Behind the flurry of bills the Democrats dumped on his desk is the real story: the hyper-partisanship that divides the two parties on...

AP Images The invasion of the United States continues.Another migrant caravan — this one composed of more than 2,000 foreign nationals — is making its way through southern Mexico with a final destination of the American border. The caravan calls itself the Migrant Way of the Cross, and is receiving the help of the Mexican government and nongovernmental organizations.As Breitbart...