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BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus A county judge blocked implementation of Iowa’s new “heartbeat” law on Monday, just three days after it became effective. Iowa now allows abortions up to 20 weeks, or five months, into a pregnancy. This is likely to be a temporary respite for the abortion industry in Iowa. Said Abbey Hardy-Fairbanks, the medical director of the abortion provider...

Rattankun Thongbun/iStock/Getty Images Plus So whites would get more prison time, blacks and Hispanics less (and Asians? Who knows?) for the same crime. This may, unbelievably, be the idea behind a new bill making its way through the California Legislature. So much for equality under the law. BPR has the story: Proof that social justice is a far cry from...

AP Images Kim Reynolds For the second time in five years, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a “heartbeat” bill into law. After calling the state’s General Assembly back into special session to consider the issue, the legislative branch passed the bill overwhelmingly last week and Reynolds signed it into law on Friday. She celebrated: This week, in a rare and...

AP Images Joe Manchin With Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-W.V.) announcement on Thursday that he opposes Joe Biden’s push to make the present interim acting director of the Labor Department, Julie Su, the permanent director, her confirmation is all but dead. Wrote Manchin, “I have genuine concerns that Julie Su’s more progressive background prevents her from and for that reason I...

Commentary Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his usual appearance at this year’s Calgary Stampede, an event that draws over one million visitors to the rodeo and midway every year. Although he often gets a chilly reception at the 10-day festival which draws politicians of all stripes out of  the woodwork, Trudeau usually makes an appearance at the Stampede. On the...

AP Images Xavier Becerra It’s a good thing the “adults are back in charge.” Otherwise, we wouldn’t have cocaine found inside the White House. We wouldn’t have “transgenders” exposing themselves on the White House lawn. We wouldn’t have a mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman prancing about in a dress and calling himself an admiral as he...

St. George Tucker Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin. All of these Founding Fathers are well known and need no first names. Tucker, however, is a surname of a member of the Founding Generation that for many isn’t familiar, and definitely needs a first name. And what a first name it is: St. George! St. George Tucker is a man whose...

Meta’s answer to Twitter, Threads, launched worldwide this week with the exception of EU member countries. The new Instagram-linked app, which is now available in 100 countries, so far has no plans to launch in the EU, likely due to privacy regulations in the bloc. There are obviously very strong concerns over the processing of data of EU citizens, as Meta...

AP Images Ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is committed to “truth,” (social) justice, and the un-American way. It’s so committed, in fact, that it, the very soul of class and timing, observed the U.S.’s birthday by tweeting that our nation sits on stolen “indigenous” land and should return it. In particular, the “Chunky Monkey” maker mentioned that Mount Rushmore should...

States are on the front lines in pushing back against federal efforts to normalize transgender procedures for minors On Saturday, Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a preliminary injunction that allows Tennessee’s law to prohibit health care providers from performing or administering cross-sex procedures on minors to take place, a week...

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the corporation that its recent “Pride” campaign merchandise and donation efforts ran the risk of violating state child-protection laws. It also cited concerns about parental rights and neglect of fiduciary duties. “State child-protection laws penalize the ‘sale or distribution … of obscene matter,'” the letter states (pdf),...

Google will record everything people post online in order to train its artificial intelligence products. On July 1, Google amended its privacy policy to allow it to scrape comments that posters put on the internet, to help it to hone its AI tools. The tech company’s plan to harvest and harness online public data is raising new privacy concerns. Google’s...

John Whitehead Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.—Harry S. Truman How many Americans have actually...

Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to block the current administration’s student loan forgiveness proposal, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pursue different avenues to offer relief to millions of borrowers. “I’m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale,” Mr. Biden said in a...

A group of demonstrators with colorful Nazi flags recently took to the streets on the outskirts of Disney World, the gigantic, famous amusement park that spans two counties near the city of Orlando, Florida. It was not one of the usual groups at the theme park, in a world where photos are taken of visitors with costumed Mickey Mouse and...

Commentary What would George Washington say? I can ask, even about modern politics, this July 4 because America’s first president was a man of such studious self-control that his answer, though furiously indignant, would be printable. As a Canadian I should also ask what Sir John A. Macdonald would say about our southern neighbour pondering a rematch between Donald Trump...

AP Images Lorie Smith of 303 Creative The Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in 303 Creative v. Elenis continues the dismantling of the “wall of separation” atheists have used successfully to remove the Christian faith from the culture. At issue is Lorie Smith’s First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, rendered through her talent and ability for creative graphic design. She...

AP Images Jair Bolsonaro No matter which continent leftists are on, they play according to the same handbook. The recent court ruling banning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office for eight years has strong parallels to the strategy Democrats are currently using against Donald Trump, and should serve as a warning of what will happen if conservatives...

wynnter/iStock/Getty Images Plus From July 2 to July 5, 1787, the delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approved a resolution that would sufficiently satisfy the demands of delegates from small states for equality of representation, as well as those from the larger states who insisted that fairness demanded representation on the basis of population. Most historians consider it the...

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...