Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recently announced that he has joined 23 states in filing an amicus brief to protect members of the National Guard from employment discrimination. The amicus brief was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. It was filed in response…
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Commentary: It’s Bernie’s Party Now
by Christopher Roach After watching two nights of Democratic primary debates, I felt like I needed more than my regular shower. The party increasingly is far-left, divided between the identity politics’ wokeness of candidates like former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and Senator Cory Booker and the…
Read MoreKeith Ellison Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Antifa While Promoting Efforts to Tackle ‘Bias-Motivated Crimes’
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has been working with local officials to crack down on the rise of “bias-motivated” crimes. The Star Tribune has published a number of articles highlighting the effort, and reports that Ellison’s office is in the process of creating a working group that would improve…
Read MoreThe Government Is Still Pursuing a Citizenship Question, But Path Forward Unclear
by Kevin Daley The Trump administration is still looking for ways to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census form, government lawyers told a federal judge in Maryland Friday. The update comes as President Donald Trump announced that he is contemplating an executive order that would require a…
Read MoreThe Roman Republic of 1849: Lessons from a Five-Month Country
by Lawrence W. Reed The ancient Roman Republic endured for half a millennium before it collapsed into the imperial autocracy we know as the Roman Empire. But did you know there was another Roman Republic only 170 years ago? That second one was much smaller—the city of Rome itself…
Read MoreRecord Number of African Migrants Trek to Mexico
by Audrey Conklin Migrants traveling from Africa to Mexico in 2019 will break records, data from the Mexican Office for Domestic Affairs suggest. The number of undocumented African migrants Mexican officials registered tripled in the first four months of 2019, reaching 1,900 people, compared to the same time in…
Read MoreIlhan Omar Sends Somber Fourth of July Message Days After Celebrating Somali Independence Day
by Molly Prince Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on “how much further we have to go,” standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior. “Today gives us all a chance to reflect on…
Read MoreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It’s Been a Year, and What a Year It’s Been
by Anna Mathews On June 26, 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) beat Joseph Crowley for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 14th congressional district. Though only 28 and with little political experience, she went on to win the general election in November, and has been making waves ever since. Here…
Read MoreThe Hard Facts Behind Venezuela’s Oil Crisis
by Kaylee Greenlee The citizens of Venezuela have gotten used to spending days parked in mile-long lines for state-owned gasoline as shortages worsened for the world’s largest oil producer. In the capital of Caracas, hundreds of motorists waited in lines last month while carrying rocks and pipes to defend…
Read MoreCommentary: Midwestern Values May We Never Lose Them
by Henry I. Miller I spent nearly a week in June in the flyover part of the country—Topeka, Kansas, to be exact—and found it to be a refreshing change. There’s noticeably less snark, whining, self-entitlement, and virtue signaling there than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live…
Read MoreDrag Queen Kyle Gale, AKA ‘Selena T. West,’ Calls for Protests at Fair
LGBT activist Kyle Gale, who appears on stage as “Selena T. West” (pictured above), has previously targeted women who do not approve of him teaching and reading to their children while dressed in full costume. Now, he’s calling for a protest of State Senate candidate Melissa Ackison at the…
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