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April 14, 2021

Appeals Court Upholds Law Barring Doctors from Performing Abortions Motivated by Down Syndrome Diagnosis

A Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Ohio law barring doctors from performing abortions they know are motivated by a Down syndrome diagnosis.

April 14, 2021

Commentary: The GOP’s Trump Solution

The Wall Street Journal on Friday published an editorial headlined “The GOP’s Trump Problem.” It gets things terribly wrong. The GOP is Trump’s party and it is the Wall Street Journal that has the Trump problem. Having been commendably supportive of the former president...

April 14, 2021

NCAA Signals That It May Pull Championships from States That Protect Women’s Sports

The NCAA signaled that it may pull championship games from places that stop biological males from competing in women’s sports. The collegiate sports league released a statement on Monday reaffirming that it supports “the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college...

April 14, 2021

CNN Tech Director Caught on Video Admitting Network Engaged in Propaganda to Get Trump Voted Out

CNN’s technical director was caught on video admitting that the cable “news” network traffics in propaganda under the guise of journalism in order achieve a desired political outcome. The director, Charlie Chester, described in Part One of Project Veritas’ “CNN Exposed” series...

April 14, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns California’s Restrictions on In-Home Religious Activities

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Friday that California's COVID-19 restrictions on in-home religious gatherings, limiting worship to families from a maximum of three households, could not continue. In the 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit Court...

April 14, 2021

BLM Co-Founder’s Consulting Firm Goes Offline as Reports Expose Her Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

The website for a consulting firm owned and operated by Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder and executive director Patrisse Khan-Cullors went offline recently amid reports that she’s in the midst of a multimillion-dollar real estate buying spree. The firm,...

April 14, 2021

Two White Translators Forced to Step Away from Translating Black-Authored Inauguration Poem

Several controversies have broken out in the past two months surrounding the foreign language translations of the poem read by Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Since February, two translators have been forced to step away from their position...

April 14, 2021

DeSantis and Doctors Accuse Media, Big Tech of Hiding Harm from COVID Restrictions

The media, academy and Big Tech are suppressing facts about the harms caused by COVID-19 lockdown policies, especially for younger generations, Gov. Ron DeSantis and public health experts said in a "roundtable discussion" on the novel coronavirus Monday. These powerful...

April 14, 2021

Commentary: ‘Dirty Jobs’ Star Mike Rowe Just Totally Debunked the Argument for a $15 Minimum Wage

Mike Rowe knows the value of hard work. The former star of “Dirty Jobs” gained notoriety for the Discovery Channel program, which featured him going undercover at some of the toughest and grossest jobs imaginable. From cleaning bat poop to...

April 14, 2021

Senator Josh Hawley Introduces Antitrust Legislation Aimed at Big Tech

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a new bill on Monday that would break up several large companies in the United States, with a particular focus on the Big Tech companies, as reported by the Daily Caller. The bill is called the...

April 14, 2021

Biden’s Cyber Nominee Is on Board of Think Tank Founded by Spygate Professor Stefan Halper

President Joe Biden’s pick for national cyber director is on the advisory board of an intelligence think tank co-founded by Stefan Halper, the longtime political operative who worked as a confidential human source for the FBI during its investigation into...

April 14, 2021

16 States That Want to Ban Trans Surgeries for Minors

At least 16 states have taken action to ban doctors from performing transgender surgeries and procedures on minors. Arkansas became the first state to ban the surgeries and procedures for minors when the legislature over rode Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of...

April 14, 2021

Officer Identified, Looting Met with Heavy National Guard Presence in Brooklyn Center

The Brooklyn Center police officer responsible for shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright was identified Monday evening as agitators surrounded the local police station for a second straight night. According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran...

April 14, 2021

Ohio Businessman Mike Gibbons Joins U.S. Senate Race

Cleveland businessman and 2018 U.S. Senate candidate Mike Gibbons has officially entered the 2022 Senate race. In his announcement, Gibbons stated that he can help others achieve their American Dream, because he did that for himself. He added that he's...

April 14, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Gibbons Tells The Ohio Star Why He’s the Best Candidate for the U.S. Senate Job

Mike Gibbons announced Tuesday that he will run for the Ohio seat in the U.S. Senate up for grabs in 2022. A Cleveland Republican, Gibbons is an investment banker, entrepreneur and real estate investor who made his first bid for...

April 13, 2021

Local Control, Business-Energy Efforts at Odds with Proposed Ohio Legislation

The decision over whether to build solar and wind turbine farms in Ohio could soon fall to local voters. Two separate bills – one in the House and one in the Senate – would allow local townships to decide for...

April 13, 2021

Commentary: Left is Using Supreme Court Commission to Change Court’s Decisions, Not to Improve It

Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The White House announcement and the members chosen for this commission raise serious questions about its real purpose and concerns about its...

April 13, 2021

Conservative Clergy of Color ‘Correct Lies’ Biden, Abrams Telling About Georgia’s New Election Law

The Conservative Clergy of Color — a group of black pastors, priests and ministers — is running a full-page ad in the Atlanta Constitution Journal newspaper saying it's "correcting the lies" President Biden and Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams have...

April 13, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Alliance Defending Freedom Files Motion to Intervene in ‘Radical’ Lawsuit Attacking Religious Schools

Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a motion to intervene in a “radical” lawsuit attacking the religious freedom of both religious colleges and students attending these schools, ADF senior counsel David Cortman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday. Former and...

April 13, 2021

Multiple Shooting Victims Reported at Knoxville, Tennessee High School, Police Say

by Andrew Trunsky Multiple shooting victims were reported at a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school Monday, the city’s police department said. One person was confirmed dead at the scene, and a police officer was sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening...

April 13, 2021

Commentary: Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan is Loaded with Corporate Welfare

President Biden has just unveiled a new $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” plan, but a shockingly large portion of this bill is actually unrelated to infrastructure. The plan includes massive subsidies for corporations as well as state and local governments, and comes right...

April 13, 2021

Top BLM Activist Demands Investigation Following Co-Founder’s Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Buying Spree

A top Black Lives Matter activist called for an “independent investigation” into the group’s finances following a report that the group’s co-founder is in the midst of a multimillion-dollar real estate buying spree. BLM Global Network Foundation co-founder and executive...

April 13, 2021

Poll: Support for School Choice Increases After COVID Shutdowns

After states shut down schools and forced families into virtual learning, parents and families found new ways to provide K-12 education to their children. While doing so, support for school choice options soared, a new poll from Real Clear Opinion Research found....

April 13, 2021

More Riots Erupt After Police Shooting of Driver in Minnesota

More violent riots have broken out in a city in Minnesota just outside Minneapolis, following a police-involved shooting of a driver during a traffic stop, according to ABC News. Although the full details of the incident have not yet been revealed,...

April 13, 2021

Biden Picks Top Immigration Officials as Migrants Continue to Arrive at Southern Border

President Joe Biden announced two key immigration official nominations Monday as migrants continue to arrive at the southern border in record numbers. Police Chief Chris Magnus of Tucson, Arizona, will be nominated to head Customs and Border Protection and immigrant...

April 13, 2021

Commentary: The Rise of Antifa in an Increasingly Toxic University Environment

Editor's note: The views in this opinion editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Campus Reform or of its parent organization, the Leadership Institute. Despite the many contributions of the academic community to developing...

April 13, 2021

Biden Admin Won’t Say How Much ‘Emergency’ Funding for Colleges Remains Unspent, Proposes Another $12 Billion Anyway

Disclosure: The writer of this piece served as the U.S. Department of Education's Press Secretary from summer 2019 through the end of the Trump administration and was involved in the announcement of the creation of the Education Stabilization Fund transparency...

April 13, 2021

Ohio DNR Recommends 10 State Projects for More than $3.5 Million in Funding

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has recommended 10 state projects for more than $3.5 million in grant funding,the department announced last week.

April 12, 2021

Officer in Minneapolis-Area Shooting Fired Fatal Shot after Mistaking Gun for Taser, Police Say

Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon described the officer involved shooting that led to the death of Daunte Wright as an “accidental discharge” during a Monday press conference. Gannon played partial body-camera video from the Sunday incident, which shows a...

April 12, 2021

Zuckerberg Group Gave Detroit $7.4 Million to ‘Dramatically’ Expand Vote in City Key to Biden Win

The Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL), a voter advocacy group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, donated $7.4 million last year to Detroit to, among other things, "dramatically expand strategic voter education and outreach" in a blue city...

April 12, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Attorneys General Plan to Create Legal Roadblocks for Biden Agenda

Republican attorneys general are determined to mount numerous legal challenges against President Joe Biden, creating a formidable roadblock to the president’s agenda. In less than three months since President Joe Biden was sworn into office, Republican states have waged war...

April 12, 2021

Commentary: Behold DeSantis, Destroyer of Narratives

Those who are looking for someone who could be a post-Trump bearer of the MAGA standard within the Republican Party have had a keen eye on Ron DeSantis for a while now. And this week it’s becoming perfectly clear why....

April 12, 2021

Biden’s ‘American Jobs’ Plan Could Cost Taxpayers about $666,000 per Job Created

President Joe Biden's proposed $2 trillion American Jobs Plan could end up costing taxpayers more than $666,666 per job created. The Washington Post gave Biden "two Pinocchios" for saying the American Jobs Plan, his infrastructure and jobs proposal, will create...

April 12, 2021

Liberal Activists Pressure Justice Breyer to Retire Because He’s Against Court-Packing

Liberal activists increased calls for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to step down Friday after he spoke out against packing the court. Breyer spoke with Harvard Law School Students earlier this week and warned them that packing the court could...

April 12, 2021

Illegal Immigrants Repeatedly Denied COVID-19 Vaccine in Florida: Report

Undocumented immigrants in Florida have been routinely denied access to the COVID-19 vaccine, the Miami Herald reported Thursday. A valid Florida driver’s license or government-issued I.D., utility bill or rental agreement is required to receive the vaccine, the Herald reported. Other...

April 12, 2021

TikTok Permanently Blacklists PragerU

Prager University, founded by radio host Dennis Prager, has been permanently blacklisted from Chinese-owned social media app TikTok. “Tik Tok has permanently banned PragerU from its platform for ‘multiple violations’ of their community guidelines,” PragerU wrote in a tweet on Thursday. “This...

April 12, 2021

State Redistricting Deadlines in 2021, 2022, and 2023

The U.S. Census Bureau announced in February that it would deliver the detailed datasets needed for redistricting to the states by Sep. 30, 2021, after the original April 1, 2021, deadline. Some states’ own redistricting deadlines predate the Census Bureau’s...

April 12, 2021

Kansas Senate Majority Leader Led Police on Drunken Chase, Called Officer ‘Donut Boy,’ Officials Say

Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Sullentrop led police on a drunken 10-minute highway chase in March that caused other cars to nearly collide, according to court documents. When a patrol officer finally pulled the SUV over, Sullentrop, a Republican, underwent...

April 12, 2021

Portland City Council: $1.4 Million for ‘Unarmed’ Patrols to Combat Gun Violence

Portland, Oregon’s City Council approved $1.4 million to go toward the hiring of “unarmed” park rangers for around-the-clock foot patrols, Breitbart reports. KGW reports there will be “two dozen” such patrols. The money for the “unarmed” patrols is part of a larger $6 million...

April 12, 2021

How Georgia’s Voting Law Compares to Seven Blue, Purple States’ Laws

Democrats have repeatedly denounced the new Georgia election integrity law that requires IDs for absentee ballots, but seldom criticize blue states that have comparable laws on their books—or in some cases, laws making it more difficult to vote than in Georgia. “Overall,...

April 12, 2021

D.C. Coroner Rules Ashli Babbitt’s Death a Homicide

The Washington D.C. Medical Examiner’s office has ruled Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt’s death as a homicide, American Greatness learned on Wednesday. Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and small business owner, was shot dead inside the U.S. Capitol by a law...

April 12, 2021

Music Spotlight: Jason Charles Miller

Agents send me music to preview. Sometimes I get quite a few in one day. When Aristo PR sent me songs from Jason Charles Miller’s From the Wreckage, Part 1 Album, I thought, “This is good, really good.” Although metal...

April 12, 2021

Commentary: Our Government Is Oblivious to Invasion

Recently while driving from town to my house, I was running through some radio stations when I landed on the Glenn Beck show. His guest was Lara Logan, a journalist and commentator unfamiliar to me, and I was sickened and...

April 12, 2021

Gas Tax Increase, Budget Cuts Give Ohio $2 Billion for Road Projects

Despite traffic on state highways, roads and bridges decreasing significantly in 2020, the Ohio Department of Transportation expects to spend nearly $2 billion in the next year on nearly 1,000 projects. Traffic volume fell by 15.5% during the past year...

April 11, 2021

Violent Crimes Spike in Cities That Defunded Law Enforcement; Burned-Out Police Leaving in Droves

Crime is skyrocketing in cities where police departments have been defunded, crime statistics show. Since career criminal George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, last summer, many liberal city councils have voted to “defund” their police departments, allocating or...