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California Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law on First Amendment Grounds

By Matthew Vadum A California appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a state law that penalized elder-care workers for using pronouns inconsistent with elderly long-term care patients’ claimed gender identity. Gender identity is a disputed concept. A lack of linguistic clarity has clouded the issue in recent years as the concepts of sex and sexual identity, or gender, […]

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Mike Pompeo on Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project: ‘An Attempt to Divide the Country’

By GQ Pan Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has weighed in on the national debate over the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) and The New York Times’s “1619 Project,” warning of what he called an attack on the “central understandings” of a history shared by all Americans. Pompeo, in a July 4 radio appearance on New York […]

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Trump Promises to Restore Free Speech in America

By Melanie Sun Former President Donald Trump warned at his third “Save America” rally on Saturday night that Americans no longer have free speech, describing a powerful system “for media and online censorship” that only presents the Democratic Party’s view of politics, including that Trump is attacking democracy by discussing potential election fraud. “We have a truly […]

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Investigative Issues: An Interview With Donald Trump, Unbowed

By Ben Weingarten, REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS In a wide-ranging interview from the corner office atop his eponymous New York City tower last week, an unfiltered Donald Trump showed he has lost none of his edge as he attacked President Biden’s ethics, demanded reparations from China for COVID-19, and advanced his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Here are some of […]

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Vernon Jones, GOP Gubernatorial Candidate, Headed to Arizona to Observe Election Audit

By Zachary Stieber Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones is heading to Arizona this week to tour the 2020 election audit taking place there. Jones, a Republican who is challenging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, plans to touch down in Arizona late Tuesday. On Wednesday, he will visit with Arizona legislators and see firsthand the forensic audit at Veterans Memorial Coliseum […]

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Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed

By Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations When Fulton County, Georgia, poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden—except that each of the darkened bubbles featured […]

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Ex-Treasury Official Sentenced to Jail for Leaks Related to Mueller Probe

By Tom Ozimek A former Treasury Department official has been sentenced to six months behind bars for leaking thousands of confidential banking documents, including ones related to former President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chair Paul Manafort, Russian diplomats in the United States, and the Russia probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to reports. Natalie […]

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Fauci Team Scrambled in January 2020 to Respond to Lab Leak Allegations, Emails Show

By Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke News analysis Top U.S. health officials, including Anthony Fauci, scrambled in late January 2020 to respond to public reporting of a potential connection between COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.  The insight into their response comes from examining over 3,000 pages of emails belonging to Fauci, the director of the […]

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Washington Post: Labeling Lab Leak as ‘Debunked Conspiracy Theory’ Was Wrong

By Zachary Stieber The Washington Post quietly walked back its claims regarding the theory that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The paper in February 2020 published an article claiming the idea was a “conspiracy theory” that had been “debunked.” The article attacked Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who called for an […]

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DeSantis: People Moving to Florida ‘Overwhelmingly’ Registering as Republicans, Including Democrats

By Jack Phillips Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that people moving to Florida from other states are “overwhelmingly” registering as Republicans, and that includes Democrats who fled their states due to COVID-19 restrictions. “The media at the beginning of this said Florida’s bad and I think it’s because they want to damage [former President Donald] Trump […]