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October 18, 2021

Ohio Ranks As One of the Least Safe States in Terms of COVID

With rankings near the bottom in five key categories, Ohio stands as one of the least safe states during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently released report. WalletHub, a personal finance website, ranked Ohio the fifth-least safe state in the nation...

October 18, 2021

Commentary: Solving the Supply Chain Problem Requires Less Government, Not More

During the latter part of the 20th Century, Americans became accustomed to hearing stories of shortages of basic items in the Soviet Union. The metaphor of “waiting in line for bread” came to signify anything where a state-managed effort led to...

October 18, 2021

Holiday Blues: Economic Challenges Threaten Season with Delays, Shortages and Price Hikes

A series of economic struggles that have grown increasingly worse this year will likely have a significant impact on the holiday season, many economic experts predict. After President Joe Biden gave remarks from the White House this week, one reporter...

October 18, 2021

Missionaries, Family Reportedly Kidnapped in Haiti Returning from Orphanage

Seventeen U.S. missionaries and family members were kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday, according to a Christian aid organization that alerted churches and asked for prayer. The missionaries, including some children, were returning Saturday from building an orphanage,...

October 18, 2021

Report Card Measuring U.S. Grades in Education Shows ‘Concerning’ Results

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress results showed that the reading and mathematics scores of 13-year-old students fell from 2012 to 2020. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results showed no...

October 18, 2021

Millions of Illegal Immigrants Could Get Amnesty, College Tuition Help and More Under Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill

Millions of illegal immigrants could have access to amnesty, assistance with college tuition, various tax credits and waived grounds for inadmissibility to the U.S. under the Democrats’ proposed reconciliation bill. The reconciliation bill might allow illegal immigrants with expunged criminal...

October 18, 2021

Biden Admin Now Says It Will Get Around to Flying Americans out of Afghanistan by the End of the Year

State Department evacuation flights out of Afghanistan will resume by the end of the year, a senior State Department official told The Wall Street Journal. The operation to retrieve U.S. citizens and Afghan allies left behind will require coordination with...

October 18, 2021

Some Credit Unions Already Losing Accounts over Democrats’ Plan to Expand IRS Tracking

Organizations representing community banks and credit unions are blasting the Democrats' commitment to expanding IRS reporting requirements, calling the proposal a government overreach that would require financial institutions to spend more money on compliance costs at the expense of products...

October 18, 2021

Nearly 47 Percent of Americans Think Natural Immunity to COVID-19 as Effective as Getting Vaccinated, Poll

Nearly half of Americans believe natural immunity to COVID-19 is as effective as the getting vaccinated, according to a new Convention of States Action/ Trafalgar Group poll. Among the roughly 1,000 respondents in the national survey of likely 2020 voters,...

October 18, 2021

Commentary: Campus Radicals Destroy What Made American Universities Wonderous Institutions

There is no faster – or more amusing – way to make a campus radical lose his composure than to fuss about the importance of cultural literacy. The term “cultural literacy,” made popular by the controversial scholar E.D. Hirsch, describes a...

October 18, 2021

Retail Sales Beat Expectations Amid Surging Inflation

U.S. retail sales increased in September, beating expectations amid growing inflation and supply chain disruptions, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday. Retail sales increased 0.7% in September, beating experts’ estimates of 0.2%, according to the Census Bureau report. The number rose 0.8%, excluding...

October 18, 2021

Police Union Boss Urges Chicago Police Officers to Defy Mayor’s Vaccine Mandate

A Chicago police union boss has instructed officers to defy the city’s upcoming COVID-19 vaccination reporting mandate, and predicted that at least half of the police force could be taken off the streets, this weekend. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced...

October 18, 2021

Democrats Laden $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill with ‘Green New Deal’ Handouts

Democrats have inserted numerous provisions and subsidy programs into their $3.5 trillion budget that would benefit green energy companies and speed the transition to renewables. The Build Back Better Act would invest an estimated $295 billion of taxpayer money into...

October 18, 2021

Experts Slam Biden’s Plan to Build Government-Funded Wind Farms

Energy experts criticized President Joe Biden’s plan to prioritize wind farms, arguing wind power is costly, inefficient and indirectly produces greenhouse gas emissions. Wind energy, like solar, is often unreliable since it is intermittent, or highly dependent on nature and...

October 18, 2021

Commentary: Spy Couple Follow in the Grand Tradition of Treasonous Leftist Couples

In the wake of the recent arrest of Maryland nuclear engineer, Jonathan Toebbe, and his wife, Diana Toebbe on charges they tried to sell classified nuclear warship information to a foreign country, the mainstream media has focused on the “mystery” of how...

October 18, 2021

Prominent Liberal Watchdog Group Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Jen Psaki

A prominent liberal watchdog group filed a Hatch Act complaint against White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday, saying her apparent endorsement of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McCauliffe during a White House press briefing may have violated federal law....

October 18, 2021

University of Minnesota Beats First Amendment Challenge to ‘Heckler’s Veto’ Against Ben Shapiro Event

Sixteen minutes after learning that a University of Minnesota student group booked conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to speak at its main campus in Minneapolis, then-president Eric Kaler declared, "I do not want this in the middle of campus." All he...

October 18, 2021

Democratic Activist Calls Virginia Parents’ Lawsuit Against School over Sexual Assault Allegations a ‘Witch Hunt’

A Democratic activist told Loudoun County conservative parents that they are part of a “witch hunt” during a press conference condemning the district’s recent handling of sexual assault allegations within its high schools, Fox News reported Thursday. At the press...

October 18, 2021

Michigan Elementary Schools Cancel Halloween, Valentine’s Day over ‘Exclusion’ of Certain Students

In East Lansing, Michigan, multiple elementary schools have announced the sudden cancellation of the celebrations of two beloved holidays, Halloween and Valentine’s Day, baselessly claiming that these holidays represent discrimination against some students, as reported by USA Today. Schools in...

October 18, 2021

New Self-Service Kiosks Will Allow Ohioans to Skip a Trip to the BMV to Register Their Cars

Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted and officials from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) announced on Wednesday that the organization will launch new BMV Express self-service kiosks. In the announcement from the group, officials celebrated the new program that...

October 17, 2021

Parents Announce ‘Not Domestic Terrorists’ Rally in Front of the Justice Department

Northern Virginia parents plan to protest in front of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Sunday, according to a flyer posted online. A flyer reveals plans for a “Parents Are Not ‘Domestic Terrorists’ Rally Oct. 17. “Stand up,...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Biden Priorities Put Citizens, Not National Enemies, in the Crosshairs

When 13 U.S. service members were killed by suicide bombers as American citizens were abandoned in Afghanistan last August—in perhaps the most ill planned military operation since our efforts in Somalia which resulted in naked U.S. servicemen being dragged through...

October 17, 2021

Biden Announces COVID Vaccine Rollout for Children as Young as Five

Joe Biden delivered a short speech from the administration’s fake White House set, Thursday, urging all Americans, including children as young as five, to get vaccinated. Biden claimed that the administration’s draconian vaccine mandates are working, and boasted that the...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Educating Students About the Victims of Communism

Many Americans today assume that the threat of Communism subsided with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But “We continue to see Communist and socialist regimes pop up and spread not only in Latin America – for example,...

October 17, 2021

Seattle Elementary School Cancels Halloween Parade Because It ‘Marginalizes Students of Color’

A Seattle elementary school cancelled its Halloween parade citing concerns that the annual event “marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday,” according to Jason Rantz of radio station 770 KTTH. Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary (B.F. Day), part...

October 17, 2021

Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s Pension Restored in DOJ Settlement

Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former Deputy Director of the FBI, has reached a legal settlement with the Justice Department that allows him to receive his pension, as well as reimbursement for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, CNN reports....

October 17, 2021

Commentary: January 6 and the FBI’s ‘Operation Cold Snap’

The tony, bucolic town of Dublin, Ohio would be one of the last places in America expected to host a convention of white supremacist militiamen. Nestled along the Scioto River, the Columbus suburb’s biggest claim to fame is hosting the...

October 17, 2021

Walgreens Closing Five Bay Area Locations Due to Spike in Shoplifting

The pharmaceutical chain Walgreens will be closing five stores in San Francisco, California due to a spike in “organized” shoplifting impacting its locations, according to MarketWatch via MSN. The decision was made by Walgreens’ parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., which will relocate...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Ten Ways the Chinese Government Lied, Misled, and Messed Up Early on in the Pandemic

A plethora of politicians and government officials across the globe screwed up in their handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Chinese government, however, was acutely damaging with its ineptitude, because it, more than any other entity, had a chance to...

October 17, 2021

Biden’s Pick for Top Banking Regulator Refuses to Hand over Thesis on Marxism

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), is refusing to hand over to the Senate Banking Committee her university thesis on Marxism written during her time in the Soviet Union....

October 17, 2021

Texas Democrats: Biden’s Energy Policies Will Cost Jobs, Create Dependence on Foreign Oil

Seven Democratic U.S. representatives have asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, to not target the oil and gas industry in the budget reconciliation bill before Congress. Despite the concerns they...

October 17, 2021

Twitter Is Being Sued for Hiring Spies Who Allegedly Stole Data for Saudi Arabia

A Saudi activist is suing Twitter for allegedly hiring two Saudi spies who, the activist claims, used their positions within the social media company to steal his personal information. The complaint, filed by activist Ali Al-Ahmed on Wednesday a California federal...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: Leftists Are Waging a War on ‘Gifted’ Children

Public schools across the country are eliminating gifted and talented programs, removing advanced courses and overhauling admissions processes to achieve equity across racial categories. Removing gifted and advanced courses is a no-cost way to cover up the racial achievement gap...

October 17, 2021

Commentary: The One Number That Puts Youngkin in the Governor’s Mansion

Some more thoughts on the FOX News poll showing former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe up by 5 points over Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin just three (and now two) weeks out from the November 2nd election. One of the numbers in...

October 17, 2021

Ohio GOP State Representatives Plan to Introduce Recreational Marijuana Bill

Ohio Republican Representatives Jamie Callender (R-Concord) and Ron Ferguson (R-Wintersville) said Tuesday they will introduce a bill that allows Ohioans to use marijuana for personal use. In the bill, any Ohio resident who is 21 or older to “buy, possess...

October 16, 2021

Ohio House Speaker Shuts Down Planned Hearing on Vaccine Mandates

Ohio Speaker of the House Bob Cupp has left little doubt about the future of bills that would give most Ohio workers and students the ability to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine by ordering a committee chair to cancel an upcoming...

October 16, 2021

Food Shortages, Staffing Issues Hit Ohio School District Hard

As food shortages soar across the United States, they have also hit home in central Ohio school districts. One of those school districts is New Albany-Plain Local Schools.

October 16, 2021

Commentary: A Call to Amend Section 230 for Social Media Transparency

Amid growing bipartisan agreement that increased regulation of social media platforms and their content moderation policies is needed, the path forward remains murky. Should Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act be discarded or strengthened? Should companies be broken up...

October 16, 2021

Federal Reserve Begins Taking Steps to Fight Growing Inflation

The Federal Reserve said in September that it would begin taking steps to combat growing inflation in the U.S. economy, according to notes from a Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 Open Market Committee meeting first obtained by The Wall Street...

October 16, 2021

U.S. Navy Preparing to Discharge Unvaccinated Sailors

On Thursday, the United States Navy announced its intentions to discharge any and all sailors who have not yet taken the coronavirus vaccine, according to Fox News. The Navy’s press release on the matter declares that November 14th is the final...

October 16, 2021

Military Levels Final Judgement on Marine Who Criticized Military Leadership over Afghanistan Withdrawal

The Marine whose outspoken social media posts criticizing military leaders for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan received a final judgement in his case Friday. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was given a letter of reprimand and ordered to forfeit $5,000 of pay for...

October 16, 2021

Counterterrorism Police Lead Investigation into Assassination of UK Lawmaker: British Reports

The 25-year-old knifeman who killed British MP Sir David Amess Friday is believed to be a "British Muslim of Somali descent," according to the Daily Mail. Earlier, Essex police announced they were keeping an open mind on whether the stabbing...

October 16, 2021

John Kerry Refuses to Single Out China for Not Setting Climate Goals

Climate envoy John Kerry applauded climate actions made by the U.S. and other countries, but refused to single out China for not setting substantive goals for cutting emissions. “We have a lot of things to still come across the transom...

October 16, 2021

‘Higher Bills for American Families’: House Republicans Demand Answers from Biden Administration on Energy Crisis

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee urged the Biden administration to lay out its plans for tackling the looming energy crisis. The representatives noted that the federal government was responsible for protecting U.S. energy security and ensuring Americans...

October 16, 2021

New January 6 Related Police Records, Transcripts Appear to Show Babbitt Clearly Unarmed Before Shot

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Thursday that it has received over 500 pages of documents from the D.C. Metropolitan Police regarding the fatal police shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Judicial Watch obtained...