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Mr. Potato Head. Dr Seuss. Now, Mallard Fillmore. On Monday, Gannett announced it was canceling Mallard Fillmore, the long-running comic strip with a conservative perspective, because of a pair of cartoons critical of President Joe Biden’s promotion of transgender rights. The decision essentially slams the…
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U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Steve Daines (R-MT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) filed an amendment to the Democrats’ partisan $1.9 trillion spending proposal to ensure that school…
Read More U.S. Senator Rubio Leads Amendment To Get Students Back To School
Joe Biden promised that, as president, he would deliver unity. Instead, he’s delivering COVID-19 relief that rewards blue states for failed policies and penalizes red ones for following “the science,” open borders, citizenship, and no deportations for illegal immigrants. And now, it appears, reparations for…
Read More Aide to Biden: “We’re ready to Pursue Reparations For Slavery Now”
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes “the enemy is within,” meaning she sees her Republican colleagues in Congress, not as political rivals, but enemies to their country. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin believes a slightly different version of the Pelosi Theorem, suggesting the nation’s military is…
Read More GOP Senators to Biden Administration: Why is the U.S. Navy Falling Behind the Chinese?
For five years, each time former President Donald Trump uttered the phrase “fake news” or “enemy of the people”, in reference to the national media, we heard a crescendo of denials, outrage, and ruminations about how Trump was threatening the further existence of the republic…
Read More Canceled: Arizona TV News Anchor Self-Cancels Over Dishonesty in the Media
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly has an economics degree from Boston University. One wonders when BU may start asking her to stop advertising that fact. In recent comments, the socialist Democrat from New York has argued for a minimum wage exceeding $20 an hour. But…
Read More AOC Talks Minimum Wage, and Leaves Out Facts While Getting Schooled
Last July, as the protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, the Black Minneapolis man who died in police custody, the Washington Redskins believed one way to solve racism was to change the team’s name. The Redskins changed their name to “Washington Football…
Read More Canceled: Farewell To The ‘First Ladies Of Football’ in D.C.
Joe Biden’s return to the White House, this time as president instead of vice president, seems fraught with a revival of misguided Obama administration policies. At least that’s what U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio fears for one of Florida’s prime niche industries: cigar-making. The Florida Republican…
Read More U.S. Sen. Rubio: Florida Cigar Makers Need Protection From An Excessive Obama-Biden Era Mandate
Conservative Christians may want to give U.S. Rep Greg Steube an amen – and skip the a-woman. The Sarasota Republican is refusing to kneel to a Democratic colleague’s assertion that God’s will is unimportant or unworthy of consideration in policy debates. In a recent interview…
Read More U.S. GOP Lawmaker Defends Standing by Bible In Equality Act Debate
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has called on the Senate to reject the “disastrous” bill known as the “Equality Act” for its blatant, if largely underreported, inequalities. Gaetz, a Florida Republican, spelled out the bill’s problems in his weekly newsletter to his constituents. He noted the…
Read More U.S. Rep Gaetz: ‘Equality Act’ is ‘Disastrous,’ and Senate Should Take a Hard Pass