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Davis: The final days of this Supreme Court term
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Davis: The final days of this Supreme Court term

By MIKE DAVIS | Substack, Guest Commentary The 2023-24 Supreme Court term already is a dynamic one. The justices, among other rulings, unanimously rejected a leftist effort to throw President Trump off of ballots based on the Insurrection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Several blockbusters await announcement this week. The most crucial case is Trump v. United States. The Court is considering whether a former president has immunity from criminal prosecution for his official presidential acts. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump after the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. One of the allegations is Trump contemplated firing his acting attorney general—clearly an official act. If presidents fear their successors will imprison them for their official acts, this...
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Trump, Biden prepare lines of attack heading into presidential debate
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Trump, Biden prepare lines of attack heading into presidential debate

By Casey Harper | The Center Square Former president Donald Trump has taken several shots at his opponent, President Joe Biden, heading into Thursday night’s first presidential debate, and Biden is returning fire. Both Trump and Biden are the presumed nominees of their respective parties this time around, a rematch of the 2020 election where Biden unseated incumbent Trump. This time, Trump is seeking to do the same to Biden, and he isn’t expected to hold back. Trump has repeatedly mocked Biden for his verbal flubs and moments of appearing lost and confused on stage. Biden has responded, with him and his team mocking Trump for his legal woes. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE CENTER SQUARE
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Barnhart: Two years ago, today, Supreme Court ruled favorably in the Dobbs case
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Barnhart: Two years ago, today, Supreme Court ruled favorably in the Dobbs case

By Faye Barnhart | Guest Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice It has been two years since the seemingly impossible happened with the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the historic Dobbs decision. Taking a similar course to slavery in the United States, the Supreme Court had made an overarching dismissal of all 50 states laws that previous to 1973 limited or outlawed abortion in all the states. Even in Colorado -- the first notorious state for allowing abortion -- it was originally limited to 16 weeks and needed a three-panel of doctors and the permission of the husband. As archaic as that may sound, it shows how compromising with evil has gotten us to where we are today, where more than 2,000 children are legally tortured to death every month in Colorado, from conception through all nine months ...
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How public schools became ideological boot camps
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How public schools became ideological boot camps

By Robert Pondiscio | The Free Press A pair of teachers at New Jersey’s Fort Lee High School recently taught students that Hamas is a peaceful “resistance movement” and Israel is committing genocide. Teachers at California’s Berkeley Unified School District are “indoctrinating students with antisemitic tropes and biased, one-sided anti-Israel propaganda disguised as education,” according to a complaint by the Anti-Defamation League. Meanwhile, students recently chanted “from the river to the sea” at college campus “tentifadas”—but when pressed could identify neither.  Why does this keep happening? And how can public schools at once be hotbeds of radicalism and “woke” indoctrination, yet produce students who are so poorly informed about the radical c...
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White buffalo born in Yellowstone Park might predict better times according to Lakota lore
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White buffalo born in Yellowstone Park might predict better times according to Lakota lore

By The Associated Press (via Colorado Politics) The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it's also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals. "The birth of this calf is both a blessing and warning. We must do more," said Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota, and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle. Erin Braaten of Kalispell took several photos of the calf shortly after it was born on June 4 in the Lamar Valley in the northeastern corner of the park, while her family was visiting the park. Traffic...
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Trump: ‘I happen to think he’s incompetent’ but warns against underestimating Biden in debate
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Trump: ‘I happen to think he’s incompetent’ but warns against underestimating Biden in debate

By Julianna Frieman | The Daily Caller Presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called President Joe Biden a “worth(y) debater” Thursday on “The All-In Podcast.” Trump and Biden are set to face off in the first 2024 presidential debate hosted by CNN on June 27. Trump told podcast hosts Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks and David Friedberg why he does not want to “underestimate” Biden during the 90-minute showdown. “All I can say is this. I watched him with Paul Ryan, and he destroyed Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan with the water. He was chugging water outta left and right. I didn’t think a human being would be able to drink so much water at one time. And he beat Paul Ryan,” Trump commented. “So, I’m not underestimating him. It is what it is. U...
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VA chief of staff stepping down from leadership post after 8 months on the job
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VA chief of staff stepping down from leadership post after 8 months on the job

By Leo Shane III | Air Force Times Veterans Affairs Chief of Staff Kimberly Jackson on Friday announced she will step down from the leadership role next month, creating another vacancy at the top of the department. Jackson has served in the role for only eight months, but had previously served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for force readiness at the Pentagon since the start of President Joe Biden’s presidency. The chief of staff role at VA serves as the top advisor to the secretary and deputy secretary. In a statement, Jackson said she is stepping down to spend more time with her family. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve alongside the dedicated women and men in the Department of Veterans Affairs in our mission of ensuring veterans and their families...
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GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case
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GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case

By GISELLE RUHIYYIH EWING | Politico Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles. Citing the “All Writs Act,” by which the court “may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law,” the resolution calls on SCOTUS to intervene in the case “with all deliberate speed and possible urgency.” The resolution argues for the court’s intervention on the basis that Americans need to make “informed decisions” in the upcoming election. It also echoes Trump’s oft-us...
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Senate Republicans propose bill slashing taxes from tips
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Senate Republicans propose bill slashing taxes from tips

By Kerry Picket | The Washington Times Senate Republicans recently crafted legislation off of former President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes from tips off of wages. The “No Tax on Tips Act” exempts “cash tips” — cash, credit and debit card charges, and checks — from federal income tax by allowing taxpayers to claim a 100% above-the-line deduction at filing for tipped wages.  According to the IRS, cash tips include “those received directly from customers, electronically paid tips distributed to the employee by their employer and tips received from other employees under any tip-sharing arrangement. All cash tips must be reported to the employer.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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McGuire: What does the Student Intifada want?
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McGuire: What does the Student Intifada want?

By Steven McGuire | City Journal With few exceptions, college and university presidents were slow and ineffective in responding to the protests and encampments on their campuses this spring. Their passivity calls to mind the character Gottlieb Biedermann in Max Frisch’s play The Fire Raisers, who, hearing about a series of local arsons, refuses to believe that the men who manipulated their way into occupying his attic could be the perpetrators. Deceived by feelings of guilt, Biedermann is unwilling to throw the men out or believe that they are dangerous—even when they tell him exactly what they are doing. Remaining in denial to the end, he hands them the very matches they use to incinerate his home. Too often, when faced with the fervent demands and outlandish behavior of studen...
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