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Animal Rescue Veteran Says Socialism Cannot Deliver Compassion
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Animal Rescue Veteran Says Socialism Cannot Deliver Compassion

By Meg Weinberger | Commentary, The Star News Network I spent decades working with abused, abandoned, and neglected animals before I ever served in the Florida Legislature, and one thing became obvious very early: good intentions only get you so far. You can want to save every dog that comes through the door. You can have volunteers ready to help. But the food still has to be bought, the veterinarian still has to be paid, and somebody still has to have the room and money to take responsibility for that animal. That is probably why I have so little patience for politicians who treat compassion as something they can claim simply by saying the right things. The Left does this constantly. Socialism is sold almost entirely in moral language. Give government more cont...
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From AR 15 Bans to Parental Rights, Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch
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From AR 15 Bans to Parental Rights, Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch

By Fred Lucas | The Daily Signal The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall in cases involving the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, parental rights, and election integrity. Here are five key cases to watch. 1. Another Test for the Second Amendment On Dec. 2, justices will consider whether state and local governments can ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15 in cases out of Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut. In Viramontes v. Cook County, the plaintiff, Cutberto Viramontes, sued in 2021 over the county’s ban on AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic rifles. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, ruling that Supreme Court precedent would allow regulation of certain weapons and citing the Heller and Bruen rulin...
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AI regulation and COVID rhyme: Same warnings, same prescription of more government 
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AI regulation and COVID rhyme: Same warnings, same prescription of more government 

By Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, is a maxim commonly attributed to Mark Twain. COVID and artificial intelligence don’t rhyme in the traditional sense. But listen closely to the political cadence and the similarities become difficult to ignore. Both arrived as potentially existential threats. Both generated remarkably coordinated warnings from politicians, government officials, experts, and industry leaders. And both quickly produced the familiar prescription: We are facing catastrophe, time is running out, and government must act. Image created by ChatGPT The latest AI chorus began rather suddenly. Five days later, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropi...
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DSA wants to abolish police and prisons. Its plan for violent offenders goes unstated
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DSA wants to abolish police and prisons. Its plan for violent offenders goes unstated

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice A television anchor in Los Angeles asked a national leader of the Democratic Socialists of America a direct question this summer, and got no direct answer. Frances Gill, a member of DSA's National Political Committee, sat for an interview with NBC 4 Los Angeles anchor Conan Nolan.  Asked whether the group's goal was to defund police and to get rid of prisons and jails, Gill said yes, according to Fox News, which reported on the exchange. What DSA wants, she said, is "a horizon where folks are not reliant on armed enforcement to meet our public safety needs." Nolan then asked whether, if his daughter were assaulted and raped, any agency would find the man who did it. "Of course," Gill began. Nolan asked what it ...
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Trump’s Young Voter Coalition Is Fracturing, Baris Warns Republicans Risk Losing Them
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Trump’s Young Voter Coalition Is Fracturing, Baris Warns Republicans Risk Losing Them

By Rich Baris | Commentary, Real Clear Politics Everything Republicans thought they knew about younger voters who backed them less than two years ago is wrong. Conservative pundits and consultants have had an almost bipolar misunderstanding of these now-disaffected Americans. When President Donald Trump made his historic political comeback in 2024, a slew of right-wing commentators repeated each other’s claims that “Zoomers” were just “more conservative” than previous cohorts. That was news to us, given BIG DATA POLL was met with fierce skepticism leading up to that election, explicitly because we led the industry in identifying trends indicating the president was making significant gains with younger, nonwhite voters. Some of these very same consultants argued&nb...
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White House Launches Trump TV After Networks Halt Pool Coverage
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White House Launches Trump TV After Networks Halt Pool Coverage

By Brecca Stoll | The Daily Wire “It’s live. Trump TV is streaming now." The White House launched Trump TV on Monday after the press pool boycotted covering President Donald Trump, dropping hints all day about what was to come.   “Trump TV IS STREAMING NOW,” the White House said. “24/7, updated in real time, with top past moments, announcements, and the latest and greatest from the administration all in one place. Not every big moment has made it on your tv, now it can.”  https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/2102172574822048160?s=20 According to the New York Post, the first broadcast was a July 3 speech that Trump delivered at Mount Rushmore. First, the White House posted an image of a disconnected TV saying, “Somethin...
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Mental health and politics: Does how we interpret adversity shape both?
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Mental health and politics: Does how we interpret adversity shape both?

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, Rasmussen Reports Baby boomers grew up in a different mental-health culture. Anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles certainly existed, but they weren’t routine topics of conversation. The prevailing advice was often some variation of “suck it up and keep moving.” That wasn’t necessarily healthy. Genuine psychiatric illness went untreated, and stigma kept many people from seeking help. Fortunately, much of that stigma has disappeared. But has the pendulum swung too far? Today, mental health is everywhere. There are therapists, medications, support groups, Reddit communities, and social-media influencers devoted to virtually every psychiatric diagnosis imaginable. Mental-health terminology has even become part of how some people pub...
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MAHA Coalition Pressures Trump and Kennedy Over mRNA Policy
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MAHA Coalition Pressures Trump and Kennedy Over mRNA Policy

By Greg Piper | Just the News Signatories including politicians Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, media personality Tucker Carlson, mRNA pioneer Robert Malone, Louisiana deputy surgeon general and doctors punished for COVID heterodoxy. When the second Trump administration refused to settle a lawsuit to reinstate in-person prescribing requirements for an abortion pill — instead launching a safety review with no end date — pro-life activists warned it would depress GOP voter turnout this fall. The old guard of the Make America Healthy Again movement, focused on reducing the power of the pharmaceutical industry and subjecting vaccines to far higher scrutiny, delivered an even more blunt message to President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary...
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Boebert Forcefully Denies Allegations of Improper Relationships With Staffers
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Boebert Forcefully Denies Allegations of Improper Relationships With Staffers

By Thomas English | The Daily Wire "I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff." Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Saturday denied a sworn ethics complaint accusing her of sexual relationships with three congressional aides, conduct that would breach House rules if substantiated. “Well, I’m not a lesbian or bisexual, and I have never, ever been in any inappropriate relationship, nor have I ever been sexually involved with any staff,” Boebert told Sources Say News. David Wheeler, head of American Muckrakers, a political action committee that has pursued Boebert for years, filed the complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Thursday. Its central claim involves Clarice Navarro ...
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Palantir Co-Founder Warns AI Fear Could Give Government and Big Tech More Power
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Palantir Co-Founder Warns AI Fear Could Give Government and Big Tech More Power

By Tyler Stone | Real Clear Politics WILL CAIN: Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale joins me now. Joe, good to see you. Thanks for being with us here today. Are the woke wizards somebody we can count on to save us from AI doomsday? JOE LONSDALE, PALANTIR CO-FOUNDER: Man, the woke ones are the worst, but you got Steve Bannon appearing with Bernie at that same conference. I call it the BBC. It's Bannon, Bernie, and the CCP. It's crazy guys on both sides. And you got Josh Hawley proposing regulation here. This is a really interesting time, Will, because you have dozens of NGOs that are trying to astroturf this AI panic. We had lots of people call me and my friends this weekend. There's a panic going on because they're trying to scare people, because they want people scared, ...
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