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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…
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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
Libertarian columnist John Stossel has long argued that gamblers make better prognosticators than polls, pundits, pollsters, and profs. Stossel operates off “the wisdom of crowds” theory, which holds that a large group of people has more collective knowledge about those events being wagered on, than…
Read More DeSantis’s Presidential Chances Improve Among One Interest Group, Gamblers
Six Dr. Seuss books, including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo,” will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said. “These books portray people…
Read More Six Dr. Seuss Books Get The Axe, Prices Sky Rocket on Amazon
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis delivered his first State of the State address to a joint session of Florida’s legislature, outlining his vision and priorities for the future of Florida. During the address, Governor DeSantis called for a focus on education, the environment, law and order,…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis: Big Tech, Law and Order, Election Integrity
Despite all the platitudes about respecting the Second Amendment that he mouthed at the time, then-candidate Joe Biden told gun owners and gun rights’ groups all they needed to know when he told Beto “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15” O’Rouke that he…
Read More On Guns, States Seek Pre-Emptive Polices to Block Further Federal Regulations
In a rare bit of intraparty blowback to President Joe Biden’s immigration schemes, a Democratic congressman is denouncing the administration’s liberal, open-border policies as “catastrophic.” Appearing on CNN on Monday, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, whose district runs south from San Antonio to the border west of…
Read More Texas Democrat: Biden’s Asylum Policy Would Be ‘Catastrophic,’ as the DHS Chief Denies Crisis
In 2020 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was the subject of an insightful and often moving documentary called “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” The two-hour film was narrated by Thomas himself, a surprise since Thomas, only the second black Supreme Court…
Read More Canceled: Amazon Cancels Historic Black American, Justice Thomas, During Black History Month