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Hypocrisy as TikTok secretly uses U.S. courts against free speech Commentary As is well known, TikTok is a national security threat because communist China has laws that give it access to the data of its almost 1.7 billion global users. Yet naive teenagers around the world download the app on their smartphones, thirsty for the latest kid craze trend. TikTok’s...

AP Images In an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, just hours after the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision on affirmative action, President Joe Biden held firm to his stance against expanding the Court.   During the interview, Wallace asked Biden if he worried “that without court reform, this conservative majority, is too young, and too...

rarrarorro/iStock/Getty Images Plus Beijing has a powerful ally in its effort to purchase large swaths of American land: The United States Department of Justice. The DOJ contends in a court filing this week that Florida legislation, signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last month, is “unconstitutional” for banning Chinese land ownership near U.S. military facilities and key infrastructure....

“I oppose affirmative action. But I also oppose legacy admissions, I oppose any kind of process or system that tries to degrade us from the principle of merit that our country was built upon. We’re founded upon excellence. That’s what the American dream is….That is a universal Maxim with which we should be striving to.” In this episode of ATL:NOW,...

President Joe Biden on Thursday responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively end affirmative action in college admissions, criticizing the court for breaking with decades of precedent. “I strongly disagree with the court’s decision because affirmative action is so misunderstood,” Biden said at the White House before departing for New York. “Many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered lawmakers back to work for a second special session after they failed to pass legislation to reduce property taxes. “I called another special session to deliver on our promise to provide the largest property tax cut in Texas history. Hardworking Texans deserve lasting property tax cuts. When the House Senate come to an agreement send...

Ron DeSantis said if he’s elected president, he’ll look to eliminate four major federal agencies. And he’s got a Plan B if he can’t get rid of them. In an interview with DeSantis on June 28, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked the Florida governor, “Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies? I know conservatives in the past have...

Commentary A couple of months ago, I wrote about various ways that both existing policies and proposed policies hurt a certain number of American citizens. Sometimes the hurt was by design; other times, an unavoidable consequence of the policy. Question: Are government policies that make citizens worse off justifiable? Is it naïve to hope for a government that has, as...

AP Images Kristi Noem South Dakota landowners battling eminent-domain lawsuits are asking their governor, “Where are you?” Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing a 2,100-mile carbon-capture pipeline through the Great Plains, affecting hundreds of landowners in the Mount Rushmore State, among others. Capturing this carbon from ethanol plants in the Corn Belt is supposedly going to save Mother Earth from catastrophic...

alancrosthwaite/iStock/Getty Images Plus Let’s read Article V of the U.S. Constitution together, and I want you to pay attention to which groups are empowered to call for a Constitutional Convention and the purpose of the Convention, and what roles the groups play: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution,...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still confident in the success of a referendum to change Australia’s Constitution despite new polling showing a drop in the public’s approval. This comes as advocacy groups prepare to launch thousands of “Yes” events across the country to encourage Australians to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Voice is an initiative by the Labor...

Commentary Allow me to explain why we have not seen a recession yet, despite the collapse in base money supply. We are witnessing the stealth nationalization of the economy. What does this mean? The entire burden of the monetary collapse and rate hikes is falling on the shoulders of families and small businesses, while large corporations and governments are virtually...

liveslow/iStock/Getty Images Plus The nation is celebrating a special anniversary today. One year ago, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for abortion. SCOTUS handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, ending Roe’s 50-year reign of murder. The ruling stated, “The Constitution does not confer a right...

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be in a statistical dead heat....

Former FDIC chair says regulators had all the power they needed to spot, solve regional bank problems In the wake of the failure of several regional banks, lawmakers are furiously at work drafting new bills to give regulatory authorities more control over banks. But some experts say that bank regulators already had all the power they needed, but failed to...

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The men of the greatest purity of intention may be made instruments of despotism in the hands of the artful and designing. — Centinel I, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 October 1787 Under normal circumstances, I would be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to someone quoting the Founding Fathers out of context, or contorting the...

Jesse Collins/Wikimedia Commons A week from today the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in a long-pending case that could dramatically impact the 2024 elections: Moore v. Harper. At issue is a deceptively simple question: Does the Constitution give power to state legislatures to regulate federal elections, or doesn’t it? In Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, the U.S. Constitution...

Commentary According to Aldous Huxley, the tyrant of the future will use drugs and propaganda to convince the individual to “love his slavery.” In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Huxley explained as follows: “You have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs, as I foresaw in ‘Brave New World,’ and partly...

arinahabich/iStock/Getty Images Plus Anti-gun zealots populating Illinois’ legislative bodies passed a bill into law in January called the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” or PICA. It was passed despite the clear ruling from the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen that the Second Amendment may only be contravened when a state can show that...

Movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has once again compared the Jan. 6 capital breach to Kristallnacht, the attack on the Jewish people that ultimately led to the Holocaust. Schwarzenegger’s comments came Friday during an episode of CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, when he defended his previous opinion that the two events were similar in that they...