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Ryun: Biden’s Border Collapse Was Designed to Transform America
National, Commentary, Real Clear Politics

Ryun: Biden’s Border Collapse Was Designed to Transform America

By Ned Ryun | Real Clear Politics In light of the Los Angeles riots, certain corporate propagandists are pushing a sympathetic fiction that it was the Biden administration making mistakes and bungling its way through border and immigration policy that got us to this stage. They’re painting a picture of well-meaning Democrats caught in a political riptide – clumsy, unprepared, overwhelmed, a bit naïve but well-meaning. Of course, this narrative is nothing more than a Big Lie, an effort to use corporate media’s reach to rewrite history in real time in hopes that the American electorate will forget the facts and history. Because what we are witnessing in Los Angeles, and what we saw at our southern border for the last four years before Trump won reelection, is not a mistake. It was a de...
Rep. Gonzalez: States can’t solve immigration chaos without congressional action
completecolorado.com, National

Rep. Gonzalez: States can’t solve immigration chaos without congressional action

Rep. Ryan Gonzalez | Commentary, Complete Colorado There’s no denying we have a broken immigration system. For decades, meaningful reform to solve this very complex issue has failed to take root. The people have wanted a fair and more streamlined immigration process that protects national security, but also is just and humane. Given the very heated climate we find ourselves in today, with riots and anarchy playing out in the streets, I have to speak up. I will not let the media speak for me. I won’t let anyone speak for me. As a Colorado state legislator and a son of immigrants, I know this issue on a personal level. My parents are immigrants. My mom is a resident and my dad is a citizen. They told me we all need a hand up sometimes but never handouts. I know many undocumented ...
6–3 SCOTUS ruling affirms states’ right to ban transgender care for minors
The Epoch Times, National

6–3 SCOTUS ruling affirms states’ right to ban transgender care for minors

By Sam Dorman, Matthew Vadum | Epoch Times The court’s 6–3 ruling means other states that have passed or considered laws similar to Tennessee’s will likely survive legal challenges. The Supreme Court has issued a major decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on so-called gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, for minors. Its decision on June 18 will likely influence how states craft legislation and how other gender-related cases unfold in the legal system. In the case United States v. Skrmetti, a majority of the justices disagreed with the Biden administration’s argument that Tennessee’s law should undergo more rigorous scrutiny in the courts. Instead, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his majority opinion that courts should apply a less rigorous stand...
Devine: When Justice Becomes Vengeance: Inside the Biden DOJ’s War Room
National, Commentary, New York Post

Devine: When Justice Becomes Vengeance: Inside the Biden DOJ’s War Room

By Miranda Devine | The New York Post Internal FBI emails reveal that rogue agents and prosecutors in the Biden DOJ were looking for ways to pile on new criminal charges against Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — this time over his involvement with the J6 prisoner choir, based on a single partisan news article. The 2023 emails obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and revealed exclusively to The Post are an example of the nitpicking malice of anti-Trump lawfare that tainted special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Can we do some work to nail down Trump’s role in this,” writes prosecutor JP Cooney to DOJ colleagues on March 8, 2023, in an email with the subject line “J6 Prisoner Choir/DJT” and an attached...
Turley: The critics overlook what Trump’s investigation into the cover-up of Biden’s mental deterioration
U.S. News & World Report, National

Turley: The critics overlook what Trump’s investigation into the cover-up of Biden’s mental deterioration

By Jonathan Turley | Commentary, U.S. News & World Report We need accountability and greater transparency on matters of presidential health and competence. “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence, he had lowered the flags at the White House in her honor. As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. And it wasn’t jus...
SALT Deduction Scam: Blue States Get the Break, Red States Get the Bill
National, The Washington Times

SALT Deduction Scam: Blue States Get the Break, Red States Get the Bill

By Lindsey McPherson | The Washington Times Republicans putting together a sweeping tax and spending package are struggling to resolve an intraparty debate over the amount of state and local taxes taxpayers should be able to deduct from their federal tax liability. The debate over the deduction, known as SALT, is pitting House Republicans from Democrat-majority states against fiscal conservatives. Republicans must find a compromise to pass President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The SALT deduction is claimed by the roughly 10% of taxpayers who itemize. The 90% who claim the standard deduction do not benefit from the deduction. Taxpayers can currently deduct up to $10,000 of state and local taxes from their federal taxable income. Itemizers must choose between deducting...
$29M in errors, 30% staff vacancy: Audit uncovers years Colorado prison system budget mismanagement
CBS Colorado, State

$29M in errors, 30% staff vacancy: Audit uncovers years Colorado prison system budget mismanagement

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado An audit of the Colorado Department of Corrections has uncovered "erroneous information and incorrect calculations" over four years of budget requests reviewed. An independent third party conducted the audit that resulted in nearly three dozen recommended changes. CDOC Executive Director Moses "Andre" Stancil told the state's Joint Budget Committee he agrees with the recommendations in the 101-page report that found CDOC's approach to budgeting is unlike any other prison system in the country, and not in a good way. "Everything has been such a fluid mess over the years," said budget writer and Republican state Rep. Rick Taggert of Grand Junction. The audit found CDOC's budget requests have had "inaccurate, incomplete, and inco...
Denver workers brace for major layoffs amid $250M budget deficit
DENVER7, Local

Denver workers brace for major layoffs amid $250M budget deficit

By Brandon Richard | Denver7 DENVER — Denver city leaders are preparing to make "substantial" layoffs in order to deal with a massive budget deficit. In May, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the city was projecting a $50 million budget deficit this year and a $200 million budget deficit next year. Johnston said his administration must consider layoffs to help the city balance next year’s budget. “We will have to look at layoffs,” Johnston said. “We do not envision a scenario where it's possible to right-size this budget without that impact on personnel.” On Wednesday, city leaders were more definitive about layoffs. “They are absolutely happening and they're going to be substantial,” said Karla Pierce, a city employment attorney. The city has not officially ...
U.S. Tightens Student Visa Vetting: Public Profiles Now Mandatory
National, The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Tightens Student Visa Vetting: Public Profiles Now Mandatory

By Robert Barba | The Wall Street Journal The State Department will review the social-media accounts of foreign student visa applicants, and applicants will be expected to have all social media profiles set to “public.” “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country,” a senior State Department official said.  Consular officers will be on the lookout for indications of hostility toward the United States. Failure by applicants to leave their social-media accounts open for public view will be seen by the State Department as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.  With the guidance now released, the department said the scheduling of visa applications could resume. Last month, the administr...
Free Speech on Trial: Colorado Pushes Ideology, CEO Pushes Back
State, The Washington Times

Free Speech on Trial: Colorado Pushes Ideology, CEO Pushes Back

By Valerie Richardson | The Washington Times Sey: 'I would argue that we're the ones correctly gendering' DENVER — Jennifer Sey hasn’t run afoul of Colorado’s newly passed ban on “misgendering,” but it’s only a matter of time. Last year, Ms. Sey founded XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear company that bills itself as “the only brand standing up for female athletes and the protection of women’s sports” in reaction to the influx of male-born competitors in female athletics. Referring to transgender people by their opposite-sex names and pronouns in advertising and customer interactions, as Colorado law now requires, would be more than inconvenient — it would contradict her entire business model. “When we talk about how it isn’t right for boys to compete in girls’ sports, it’s import...