The Human Rights Campaign—a large, influential LGBTQ advocacy group— recently released a policy brief with recommendations for a Biden administration, and the suggestions are alarming. The organization’s “Blueprint for Positive Change 2020” describes itself as “a comprehensive list of 85 individual policy recommendations aimed at improving the lives of LGBTQ people.” But the Human Rights […]
In a recent Parents magazine piece headlined, “How to Explain the Hanukkah Story to Kids,” we are informed that, “this year more than any other is a great opportunity to take extra time to teach your family about the Jewish holiday that celebrates the power of light and miracles.” Hanukkah, Parents goes on to explain, […]
Postal employees in Wisconsin backdated mail-in ballots in the presidential election and nursing home staffers pressured elderly residents on how to vote, witnesses told state lawmakers. A state election official, meanwhile, assured the Wisconsin lawmakers that there is no evidence of widespread fraud. These and other witnesses testified Friday before two committees of the Wisconsin […]
In a dramatic blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the unofficial election results, the Supreme Court on Friday evening rejected a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the outcome in four battleground states. The high court’s one-page opinion said Texas did not have standing to sue over election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and […]
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order Friday night declining to hear Texas’ recently filed lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Texas sought to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election in those states. Texas raised a number of substantive issues in its request, including: one, that those states violated the Constitution’s […]
Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is discovering the hard way that even virtue-signaling has diminishing returns. So, no, prattling on about how much “our nation’s systems and structures are fundamentally racist and require significant reform” will not allow you to finally protect your city from marauding mobs, if the vandals themselves see through […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on Thursday in response to revelations of his interactions with an alleged Chinese spy, accusing the GOP of harping on the issue to distract from QAnon. “I don’t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters during her weekly press conference Thursday morning. “I […]
In a recent event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey highlighted the many ways in which business elevates humanity. Mackey specifically praised the innovation and value creation inherent in free market capitalism that have resulted in astonishing growth and real, measurable human progress from a world of near-universal poverty […]
A group of 27 Republican congressmen urged President Donald Trump to order a Justice Department-appointed special counsel investigation of “legitimate questions” about election irregularities. The Republican congressmen asked Trump to direct Attorney General William Barr to appoint the special counsel, according to a letter obtained by Politico that was sent to the White House on Wednesday. Reps. […]
Mail-in voting instituted during the pandemic has changed the concept of Election Day forever, a well-known conservative writer and historian says. “We’ve lost the idea of Election Day and it no longer exists anymore as we know it,” columnist and commentator Victor Davis Hanson said Monday night during The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 President’s Club meeting. […]
