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Mary Margaret Olohan A city in Southwest Ohio will most likely declare itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn” and outlaw abortion within municipal limits Tuesday evening, multiple pro-life organizations said. Lebanon’s ordinance is sponsored by six out of seven members of the city’s council,…
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Andrew Kerr The leader of a Pentagon working group overseeing efforts to root out domestic extremists in the military tweeted in 2019 that any supporter of former President Donald Trump unequivocally supports extremism and racism. “Support for him, a racist, is support for ALL his…
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Kaylee Greenlee Protesters who use lasers, fireworks or block roads during demonstrations could face increased criminal charges according to two bills sent to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Sunday and Monday. Texas House Bill 9 would increase the criminal penalty for individuals who obstruct roadways while House Bill 2366 could…
Read More Texas Passes Legislation To Punish Protesters Who Block Roads, Shine Lasers At Cops
A Florida high school has offered refunds to parents who bought a yearbook with dozens of edited photos of female students that the school deemed wearing inappropriate attire. Bartram Trail High School edited the photos of 80 students, according to the St. Augustine Record. The photos…
Read More Florida High School Alters Girls Yearbook Book Photos, Offering Parents Refund
A Miamisburg man was sentenced in federal court in Dayton today to 300 months in prison for attempting to coerce a minor while registered as a sex offender. Steven Shawn Smith, 48, pleaded guilty to the crime in January 2021. According to court documents, Smith…
Read More Ohio Man Who Solicited More Than 170 Kids Online Gets 25-Years In Prison
Mary Margaret Olohan An “avalanche” of “expanding and accelerating” demographic forces is driving global birth rates down at alarming rates, demographers warned The New York Times. “A paradigm shift is necessary,” German demographer Frank Swiaczny, former United Nations chief of population trends and analysis, told the…
Read More Demographers Warn Of ‘Epochal Fall In Fertility’ Across The Globe
Andrew Trunsky An American editor for the independent news site Frontier Myanmar was detained Monday after attempting to leave the country, the company said. The site said that Danny Fenster, a managing editor for the company, was detained for unknown reasons before boarding a plane…
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Kaylee Greenlee Hundreds of migrant parents were deported without the option of taking their children back with them, a government investigation found. “[In] some cases, parents told ICE officers they wanted their children to accompany them back to their home country — but ICE nevertheless…
Read More ICE Deported Migrant Parents Without Giving Them A Chance To Take Their Kids, Government Investigators Say
Mary Margaret Olohan Multiple men and women who have detransitioned described how easy it was for them to get transgender surgeries and hormones in a new CBS segment — and how the surgeries or treatment negatively impacted them. As lawmakers across the country introduce and…
Read More ‘I Still Felt Incomplete’ Detransitioned Men, Women Describe How Frighteningly Easy It Was To Get Trans Surgeries, Hormones
This column is about political pollster, and former Republican, Frank Luntz. For the record, I worked for Frank for several years as his senior vice president. I have not spoken with him in twenty-years, and until last week when I spoke to a reporter from…
Read More Frank Luntz’s Infection Of Washington, D.C. And The GOP