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Unanimous Decision From Supreme Court: Discrimination Is Discrimination

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By The Geller Report

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essay

This had to go to the Supreme Court because lower courts ruled that discrimination against groups targeted by the left (white, straight, male or Christian) was lawful.

Activist judges have allowed racial discrimination against whites since the 1980s. In a unanimous decision, SCOTUS has determined that ‘reverse discrimination’ is, indeed, discrimination. It only took 44 years for the court to figure it out...(X)

No matter who is doing it. It was a remarkable day at the Supreme Court, but the release of decisions was drowned out by the lively events of the day. The Supreme Court case here was Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. The issue at hand is plaintiff’s claim that her LGBTQ boss was looking past her to promote her LGBTQ colleague. The court held—unanimously—that Title VII (prohibiting  “discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin”) does not vary based on whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group. Stated differently: The fact that the plaintiff is straight can’t be used against her. In sum—in the closing words of the Court’s opinion: We conclude that Title VII does not impose such a heightened standard on majority-group plaintiffs. Therefore, the judgment below is vacated, and the case is remanded for application of the proper prima facie standard (Supreme Court).

Let’s dispense with the term “reverse discrimination.” It’s an oxymoron. These are cases of discrimination, full stop. If someone’s sexual preferences are the basis for employment decisions, that violates Title VII, and the same is true for ethnicity, sex, religion, and so on. Discrimination is discrimination, and the very notion that certain classes of people within those categories have a higher evidentiary standard than others is itself discriminatory. The text makes that clear even to Justice Jackson: “As a textual matter, Title VII’s disparate-treatment provision draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs. Rather, the provision makes it unlawful ‘to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.’ …  By establishing the same protections for every “individual”—without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone (Hot Air).

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Communist Party Intel Officials Have Keys To Trump’s Alma Mater

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By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump’s alma mater was recently sold from one individual with extensive ties to China’s intelligence arms to another, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

“Allen” Lu Yuzong, CEO of Guanghua Education Group, recently purchased the New York Military Academy (NYMA), which Trump attended between 1959 and 1964, from the CEO of SouFun Holdings, “Vincent” Mo Tianquan, for an undisclosed amount, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Mo initially acquired the bankrupt academy in 2015 for approximately $16 million dollars using a nonprofit he controls called the Research Center on Natural Conservation, Chinese state media reported at the time.

Mo and Lu have both worked for the Chinese government as well as agencies within an intelligence and influence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to Chinese government and state media reports translated by the DCNF, raising concerns among analysts that NYMA might be used as a staging ground for covert operations, especially given its close proximity and relationship with West Point Military Academy.

West Point denied that it had any relationship with NYMA.

NYMA, Lu and Mo did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

‘Jackpot’

China’s military and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence networks may view NYMA’s acquisition as a way to forge ties with individuals who will “have interaction, perhaps by proximity or otherwise, with West Point,” Steve Yates, senior research fellow for China and national security policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF. The acquisition could also be seen as a means to connect with influential alumni, which include filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, composer Stephen Sondheim and now the president of the United States, according to NYMA.

“I have no question that Chinese intelligence and military entities would see that as high value,” said Yates, who previously served as a Chinese language analyst for the National Security Agency and deputy national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. “Here is a way to try to cultivate connections that may lead to either influence or a potential encounter with the president at some point.”

“They have a lot of people, and they can play the odds, so they can be wrong 999 times, but, if one of these people ends up being the president of the United States one day, that’s jackpot,” Yates said.

Lu and Mo have both held numerous positions with Chinese government and UFWD agencies, according to Chinese government and state media reports.

The UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Among other roles, both Lu and Mo have served as officials for a UFWD subordinate called the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA), which is one of the two “most important” organizations involved in China’s technology transfer efforts, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

NYMA’s former owner-turned-board member, Mo, is listed as a “director” by WRSA, according to a DCNF translation of the association’s website. NYMA’s new board chairman, Lu, serves as the deputy chairman of WRSA’s “global liaison work committee,” according to a DCNF translation of a UFWD announcement.

Lu met with high-ranking CCP and UFWD officials at a WRSA branch in Zhejiang province in November 2022 to discuss talent recruitment operations for the region, according to a UFWD announcement. Several years prior, Zhejiang’s city of Rui’an held a conference for the Thousand Talents Plan, during which Lu was appointed to serve as a “talent ambassador,” Chinese state media reported. The Thousand Talents Plan is one of the Chinese government’s many “talent recruitment plans,” all of which incentivize participants to “steal foreign technologies needed to advance China’s national, military, and economic goals,” according to the FBI.

Both Lu and Mo have also served as delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to the Chinese government. CPPCC “delegates attend a high-profile annual meeting to receive direction from the CCP regarding the ways its policies should be characterized” and “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to USCC.

Chinese government announcements include photos showing both Lu and Mo wearing the CPPCC’s distinctive red, clip-on delegate’s badge during related press events.

‘Bad Deal’

NYMA has taken students to visit the West Point Museum and Chapel, it has held events at West Point’s Eisenhower Hall and Hudson Room, and has used West Point’s campus to “enhance” leadership training programs in recent years, according to NYMA announcements. The academy has also brought visitors from China to tour West Point, NYMA announcements state.

“West Point has no affiliation with the New York Military Academy,” a West Point spokesman told the DCNF. “Entrance to the United States Military Academy grounds is governed by rigorous security protocols. For security reasons, we will not provide further details about security measures.”

Trump appears to have a soft spot for his alma mater, whose cadets marched during his inauguration ceremonies in 2017 and 2025, footage shows.

Trump entered NYMA as a private in 1959, served as a company commander, and ultimately achieved the rank of “Captain, S-4, Senior Staff” by his graduation in 1964, according to NYMA photos and records. While attending NYMA, Trump played a variety of team sports including football, wrestling and baseball, and was named “ladies’ man” by a “popularity poll,” photos show.

“President Trump is proud of his time at the New York Military Academy. He learned important virtues that helped him become one of the greatest businessmen in the world and ultimately President of the United States twice,” Steven Cheung, White House communications director, told the DCNF.

NYMA’s sale to individuals connected to the Chinese government and UFWD is a “bad deal” for the U.S. and presents a national security threat, Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the DCNF.

“The CCP and its members should not own property within the U.S., nor should they be involved in our education system. And most importantly, the CCP should be kept as far as possible from any of our key military assets such as West Point,” Lucci said. “The NYMA should be removed from Chinese ownership as soon as possible.”

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comment from the White House.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter.

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Education Department: Columbia University No Longer Meets Standards for Accreditation

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By The Geller Report

Education Department claims Columbia University no longer meets standards for accreditation

“After Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, Columbia University’s leadership acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “This is not only immoral, but also unlawful.”

By Misty Severi, Just The News, June 4, 2025:

The Department of Education on Wednesday notified the accreditor responsible for New York City’s Columbia University to let them know the school failed to meet accreditation standards by violating federal anti-discrimination laws.

The notification comes after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) found it violated Title IV by acting with “deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students.”

The department said the finding means that the school has failed to meet accreditation standards that were set by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

“After Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, Columbia University’s leadership acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “This is not only immoral, but also unlawful.”

Accreditors are responsible for making sure that schools comply with federal civil rights law in order to qualify for federal funding, including federal student aid assistance through student loans and Pell grants.

The Ivy League school, located in Manhattan, served as the epicenter of anti-Israel protests last year. Some protests also broke out earlier this year, including one protest that disrupted students who were trying to study for final exams.

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Trump Orders Probe Into Biden’s Presidential Actions

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By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday evening directing a probe into “who ran” the U.S. during former President Joe Biden’s time in office.

Questions regarding Biden’s mental state have rapidly developed among Democrats since the release of Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin,” detailing the former president’s mental decline while in office. In the White House’s press release, Trump said the memorandum will direct the investigation into “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

“The Memorandum also mandates an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Biden’s purported execution of the numerous executive actions during his final years in office, examining policy documents signed with an autopen, who authorized its use, and the validity of the resulting Presidential policy decisions,” the statement added.

Prior to the 2020 presidential election, Republicans began to sound off over concerns about Biden and his mental state. While some Democrats have still supported Biden following the book’s allegations, others have begun to question his time in the White House and the issues he oversaw.

According to the White House’s statement, Biden’s use of the “autopen raises serious concerns about the legitimacy of his actions,” citing reports that indicate the former president suffered from “serious cognitive decline.”

“Despite Biden’s cognitive deficiencies, the White House issued over 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the Federal bench, and issued more pardons and commutations than any Administration in U.S. history,” the statement reads. “The authority to take these executive actions is constitutionally reserved for the President, yet the Biden White House used an autopen to execute the vast majority of Biden’s executive actions, particularly during the second half of his Presidency.”

In his final month in office, Biden issued a wave of pardons, notably commuting the sentences of 37 out of the 40 “most vile and monstrous criminals on Federal death row,” the White House said.

Tapper’s and Thompson’s new book, based on interviews with multiple sources, reveals Biden’s decline had become so alarming among aides that some considered placing him in a wheelchair following the 2020 election.

Though Democrats initially rallied behind Biden as their 2024 nominee, lawmakers and pundits quickly reversed course after his disastrous June debate against Trump, where the now-former president froze mid-sentence and struggled to complete his arguments. Questions about whether Biden could last another term spread immediately.

As calls from lawmakers mounted, Democrat donors also paused millions in contributions until Biden exited the race. By July 21, Biden announced his withdrawal and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s next nominee.

AUTHOR

Hailey Gomez

General Assignment Reporter.

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PODCAST: Govt. Regs. Costing Every American $16K a year! Was Pope Francis a Marxist?

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TOPIC: Govt. Regs. Costing Every American $16K a year!

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Relative vs Absolute Risk Reduction 2

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By John Droz, Jr.

Don’t be fooled. 

I wrote about this EXTREMELY important matter here. Please review that post, as it explains in a simple fashion the enormous difference between these two very significant numbers.

I recently came across a two-minute video that tackles the same issue…

This is a VERY big deal for citizens to understand, as a variety of self-serving parties try to take advantage of the fact that many citizens are technically challenged — and fool them by using relative (not absolute) risk reduction.

Hopefully, this will be one of the many things that RFKjr will see is fixed at the FDA and CDC…

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VIDEO: AEI Housing Market Indicators, May 2025

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By Edward Pinto

AEI Housing Market Indicators May 2025 Briefing

You don’t want to miss this update! This month, we highlighted the following hot housing topics:

  • Recent movements in rates, demand, and supply: Mortgage rates remained elevated at 6.75%, while purchase rate lock volume dropped to a multi-year low—down 24% from the same week in 2019 and 5% year-over-year.
  • Home price appreciation (HPA) and months’ supply trends through March 2025: HPA slowed to 3.0%—its second lowest April rate in the series—while months’ supply declined to 3.2 months, just below pre-pandemic levels as inventory grows faster than seasonal trends
  • FHA appears not to be properly tracking its partial claims, costing taxpayers: FHA is not and collecting partial claims in about a quarter of cases, and taxpayers will be providing free money to certain FHA borrowers. Assuming an average partial claim amount of $23,000-$27,000 and 1.3 million unique claims since 2020, the taxpayer could lose $6.75 billion—not including partial claims completed before 2020.
  • An update on Bureau of Land Management sales to build starter homes: Making just 250 sq. miles of developable BLM land available for sale in 12 Western states would enable the private sector to add 1.75 million homes, a much of which would be family-sized starter homes for the working class. The 2025 Budget Reconciliation process provides an opportunity to address the Western region’s housing and development needs by expediting the disposal of target Federal lands for competitive sale at market prices.
  • Preview: The AEI Housing Success Playbook: The AEI Housing Center’s Housing Success Playbook provides five straightforward, proven policies to build an additional 1.6 million homes annually, and without subsidies. These include allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, legalizing conversions of single-family homes, permitting backyard cottages and ADUs, enabling residential overlays in commercial zones, and developing starter homes on BLM land.
  • The surprising role of large developers in solving the housing crunch: The nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers, with 51.2% of their new construction sales going to FTBs in 2024, up from 38.6% in 2014. This transformation has been driven by building smaller homes and offering financial tools like rate buydowns, while median lot sizes declined by 1,050 sq. ft., enabling greater affordability and access to starter homes.

The AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) provide accurate and timely metrics for the housing market. These include mortgage risk/leverage (with a particular focus on agency first-time buyer volume and risk), house prices and appreciation trends, housing sales (new and existing sales whether institutionally financed, cash, or other-financed), and inventory levels. Since the housing market is influenced by many different factors, all need to be considered together to better understand market trends.

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‘Absolutely Horrific’: AI-Generated Child Porn Leads Teen to Commit Suicide

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By Family Research Council

As their teenage son lay in the hospital with his life oozing out of him, Eli Heacock’s parents felt their grief compounded by confusion: They had no idea why he had committed suicide.

Then they found his phone.

Messages showed their son — 16-year-old Elijah “Eli” Manning Heacock of Glasgow, Kentucky — had fallen prey to an extortioner, who convinced Eli to send photos of himself, which the predator used to generate sexually explicit images using artificial intelligence (AI).

The victim’s father, John Burnett, said Eli scrambled to collect as much of the $3,000 bribe as he could, only to hear his predator tell him, “This is not enough.”

In despair, Eli shot himself on February 27, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the University of Louisville Hospital the next day.

The tragic death highlights the changing profile of sexual abuse and predation. Parents “no longer [have] to be scared of the white van that drives around. You have to be scared of the internet,” said Eli’s mother, Shannon Heacock.

Her son is far from the first person to lose his life to online sexual extortionists. “From October 2021 to March 2023 … sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims — primarily boys — and led to at least 20 suicides,” according to the FBI.

But even in death, Eli, who lost his unique potential so young, stood out from others: Usually, exploiters lure their victims into sending sexually explicit photos, then blackmail them into sending money or more compromising photos. Eli apparently shared less explicit images, which the predator allegedly altered using artificial intelligence — which analysts say highlights another threat of nascent AI technology.

“It’s absolutely horrific and tragic that criminals used AI-generated images to extort money out of a teenage boy, ultimately resulting in him taking his own life,” Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. FRC previously highlighted concerns raised by AI chatbots, which appear to be human, engaging in sexually explicit dialogue with minors online — or stoking pedophiles’ fantasies by posing as sexually precocious children.

With the rise of AI-generated pornography, a victim need not send his tormentor nude or suggestive photos. Powered by AI, child exploiters do not need their victim to send them any photos at all: They can download an image from the internet or take a candid photo without the victim’s knowledge.

People from all walks of life can fall victim to AI-generated “deepfakes.” Last month, New Zealand politician Lana McClure stood on the floor of Parliament and displayed nude photographs of herself, which she said she personally created in a matter of minutes using artificial intelligence software.

Lawmakers in Heacock’s native Kentucky reacted by adopting a law, S.B. 73, which makes sextortion a felony. President Donald Trump also made tackling “revenge porn,” including images created by artificial intelligence, an early priority in his second administration.

“Congress has recently worked to mitigate these types of situations by passing the Take It Down Act,” supported by First Lady Melania Trump, which passed Congress with near-unanimous consent and signed into law by President Trump, noted Del Turco. The law makes it illegal to knowingly publish, or threaten to publish, intimate images without a person’s consent; it also requires websites to remove such images within 48 hours of a victim’s valid request and help track down any sites that have republished the material. Del Turco noted that the new law “applies to AI-generated images. Policymakers should continue to enact prudent legislation to protect people from abusive uses of AI, including sexual extortion.”

Not every level of government shares Heacock’s concerns. Global governance bodies have allowed lawmakers to exclude AI-generated porn even of the youngest children. The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, adopted last December 31, forbids “real or simulated sexual activity” but gives nations the right to limit the prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) to material that “[d]epicts, describes or represents an existing person.” That excludes child pornography images or videos that are entirely AI-generated and not based on one specific child.

“In several sections, the new UN treaty allows countries to de-criminalize virtual child pornography in all circumstances as well as private sexting by minors, even to adults,” noted Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).

Americans also feel concerned some lawmakers have prioritized the explosive growth of the artificial intelligence sector at the cost of their children’s innocence, even their lives. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” which recently passed the House of Representatives contains a provision preempting states from regulating AI technology for 10 years. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there,” wrote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on social media Tuesday. “We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.”

The bill is now before the Senate. The AI provision has raised alarms beyond the chamber. Many grieving parents wish leaders would give them stronger tools to keep their children safe from the ever-expanding reach of predators. “We can’t afford to be behind the ball on creating policies that govern AI,” Del Turco told TWS. “The effects are too far-reaching” — a fact Eli’s mother, Shannon, knows too well.

“I don’t want another mother to ever face this, another sibling, another father to face this,” she said.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Admin’s Naming And Shaming Of Sanctuary Cities Coming Back

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By The Daily Caller

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that the Trump administration will soon be releasing a new list of sanctuary cities that are not in compliance with federal statutes.

The Department of Homeland and Security removed its previous list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” Sunday, which was previously ordered under a Trump executive order. After the list was first posted, several city leaders voiced concerns that their areas were included in the list.

Leavitt told the Caller at Tuesday’s White House briefing that the list would be reinstated soon.

“The Department of Homeland Security will be releasing a new list of sanctuary cities – an accurate list of sanctuary cities,” she said.

The Caller also asked Leavitt how the administration would be cracking down on sanctuary jurisdictions following the terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. A month before the attack, the state passed sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants.

“As for what we’re doing to crack down, the president has signed executive orders and has directed the attorney general to prosecute federal – state and local officials were not complying with federal immigration force – authorities, and most importantly, federal immigration law,” Leavitt told the Caller.

Trump’s April executive order on sanctuary cities warned that jurisdictions that do not comply with federal law would be at risk of losing federal funding. The order also directs the U.S. attorney general and secretary of Homeland Security to “pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to bring non-compliant jurisdictions into compliance.”

“The Order ensures illegal aliens are not being favored over American citizens by directing the Attorney General to address state or local laws that unlawfully prioritize aliens,” a fact sheet on the order writes.

It was under the same order that Trump directed DHS to publish a list of states and local jurisdictions that are “obstructing federal immigration law enforcement.” Each sanctuary jurisdiction will be notified of its non-compliance so they can be given an “opportunity to correct it.”

“DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with Federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens, not dangerous illegal aliens,” the previous list reads.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House Correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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Tennessee Passes Landmark Human Smuggling Legislation into Law

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By Center For Security Policy

On May 27, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed groundbreaking state-level human smuggling legislation into law.

Mass illegal immigration into our country during the Biden administration has turned every state into a border state. Increased supply of dangerous drugs such as fentanyl, combined with expanded human trafficking, have caused a severe strain on states and community resources.  

Hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children have been released to sponsors across the country. In all too many cases, these sponsors were actually fronts for traffickers. An unknown number of unaccompanied children fell into the full control of the cartels and blackmarket human traffickers. 

States must pass laws to deter illegal immigration and give state and local law enforcement the tools they need to perform duties to stop and apprehend human smugglers. States should continue working to find solutions to mitigate the dangers associated with allowing millions of unvetted illegal aliens to cross into America and ensure public safety. Tennessee has taken the lead with its new human smuggling law. 

Even before the Trump administration designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a relationship had been forming between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups in terms of human smuggling. Cartels have leveraged existing drug smuggling “ratlines” across the US southern border to establish human smuggling corridors. Now, they reportedly make more money off of human smuggling than they do off of drug smuggling. This is because the overwhelming majority of human smuggling victims are young females who are sold into sex slavery where they become ongoing sources of revenue. 

The key difference today is that the revenue stream is providing material support for foreign terrorist organizations.

Just as worrisome is the fact that over the past 4 years of Biden-Mayorkas malfeasance, cartels used the same routes to smuggle known terrorists and criminals into the U.S. thereby threatening U.S. national security and the safety of US citizens.

Enhanced investigation, enforcement, prosecution and intelligence sharing between local, state and federal law enforcement may be the best way to detect, prevent and put an end to human smuggling into and throughout the U.S. 

The landmark human smuggling law passed in Tennessee is a major step toward making the state and local criminal justice system and law enforcement meaningful partners and force multipliers to stop this activity and improve public safety. 

 The legislation, authored by Representative Chris Todd and Senator Brent Taylor, was needed because there is a distinction between human trafficking and human smuggling that had gone unaddressed. 

Human smuggling victims are distinct from other victims of human trafficking, who are often trafficked by family members, relatives and friends in small numbers (typically ones and twos). The different nature of human smuggling and especially the criminal and terrorist organizations behind it, require a finer point to the law.  

  • Human smuggling involves: 
  • Crossing international borders 
  • Trafficking larger numbers of victims at a time 
  • Control by organized crime in the form of terrorist cartels and others 

A whole new illicit, underground industry was built up in the US over the past 4 years due to malfeasant border policies and rampant illegal immigration. The Mexican cartels had been in charge of the border, not US law enforcement. Those cartels have only recently, since the beginning of the Trump administration, been designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Moreover, it wasn’t until President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the US military to the border that the border came under control.

The terrorist cartels have expanded their reach across America. They have brought thousands of “unaccompanied minors” into the United States. Most of those minors are young girls who are subjected to unbelievably cruel and abusive situations, including sex slavery. Tragically, some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been implicated in human trafficking and human smuggling.

Unfortunately, the human smuggling legislation in Tennessee came under unfounded attack from the extremist Left.

Leftists made the specious accusation that the new law would criminalize family members or religious groups who are “performing acts of charity.”

In reality, the law targets human traffickers who force largely minor females into “involuntary labor servitude, forced labor, trafficking for commercial sex acts, prostitution and human smuggling.”

None of these activities is something that a loving family or legitimate charitable organization would be involved in.

In the new law human smuggling is defined as transporting one or more victims for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain.  No loving family or legitimate charitable organization would be involved in human trafficking/smuggling for commercial advantage or private financial gain. 

Border czar and former Obama administration US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan reports that as many of 300,000 unaccompanied minors who came across the southern border are unaccounted for. Many of them became trafficking victims. Tragically and outrageously, the US government became complicit in this trade as those minors were passed on to unvetted “sponsors” by our government. Homan reports that many of those sponsors were actually traffickers.

Tennessee’s new human smuggling law gives law enforcement and the criminal justice system effective tools for prosecuting human smugglers and is focused on the methods and techniques that they use, namely forced labor and forced sex slavery, all for commercial advantage and financial gain.

In the months and years ahead, look for other states to adopt the Tennessee model to combat human smugglers.

AUTHOR

Christopher Holton

Senior Analyst and Director of State Outreach.

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Hidden Religion in Washington. D.C.

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By The Catholic Thing

In 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which restricted child labor. Congress believed that children possessed an intrinsic value above monetary quantification. In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which forbade discrimination on the grounds of race, color, or national origin. Congress believed that all human beings were created equal and therefore due equal treatment under the law.

In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forbade discrimination against those with disabilities. Congress believed that physical abilities, or lack of them, do not constitute the essence of a person. His essence, by extension, comes from some other source, and the government is not it.

Religion, we often hear, should have no bearing on politics: the wall between church and state shall not be breached. Yet these three laws, to which we could add others, flow directly from a central Christian belief: that the human person is created by God. By fashioning all men and women in His image and likeness, God has endowed human beings with an innate dignity that no other person or entity may violate.

We take it for granted today that the government’s functions include protecting citizens’ rights, many of which, including those protected in these three laws, are pre-political, that is, they are part of persons’ nature, not grants of government privilege. We fail to realize that many of these rights are political expressions of the prior Christian belief that all persons are equal because they are all children of the one Father in Heaven. As a result, one person or group cannot be greater than any other, nor exploit any other.

“Political problems,” wrote Russell Kirk, “at bottom, are religious and moral problems.” In other words, our beliefs and morals shape our politics, not the other way around. Beneath every hotly contested political topic of today or yesteryear – immigration, tariffs, welfare, health care, DEI, the Cold War, supply-side economic theory, segregation, slavery, westward expansion, independence from Britain – lie beliefs that shape the approach and policy. There is no such thing as a “neutral” politics devoid of prior beliefs and principles.

Sometimes these beliefs are tenets of Christianity, such as the inherent dignity of the person, which has given rise to the push for legal equality. I doubt that vociferous secularists who decry any odor of religion in public life would reject equality because it is “tainted” by religion.

Other beliefs are philosophical, such as certain economic and geopolitical theories. And sometimes beliefs come from a distinctly modern kind of religion that eschews traditional forms such as churches or hierarchies. These beliefs stem from ideologies, systems of ideas abstracted from various theories and harmonized into programs to direct a nation (or the world itself) toward preconceived ends. Like revealed religion, ideologies have dogmas and exist to save human beings from the sins of the world.

Just as Christian beliefs lie hidden in Washington, modern ideologies lie hidden there, too. Expressive individualism, the belief that the individual and his sexual freedom are the most important considerations of society, drives abortion and family law. Gender ideology, the belief that gender is a construct of the mind divorced from nature, drives school curricula, medical laws, and cultural practices from library collections to the bizarre “drag queen story hour.” Diversity, equity, and inclusion, the belief that every sector of life must have proportional representation of society’s ethnic makeup, drives Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which governs employment practices across the country.

Washington, in fact, is filled with religious beliefs – we need only look more closely to find them. Given how much fighting we do over politics and policies, Americans have a two-tiered view of religion. When religion pertains to supernatural beliefs, they are relativists holding that all religions are created equal, varying paths to the same goal. But when religion impacts daily life or politics, they defend them absolutely. The Culture Wars, in essence, are wars over how religion – whether revealed or ideological – impacts society at large.

This perspective recasts ongoing battles over religious liberty. The Constitution prohibits the establishment of a state-sponsored religion. It does not, and cannot, prohibit public expressions of religious beliefs, for they are ubiquitous, of varied sources, and fundamental to human reasoning. Doing so not only discriminates against certain religious beliefs which are somehow deemed inferior to other beliefs. It prevents politics and policy from freely taking place as well.

Yet preventing Christian beliefs from public manifestation was, beginning in the 1960s, the goal of the Supreme Court, which deliberately conflated expression of beliefs with state-sponsored religion. In its view, acknowledging God’s existence and sovereignty could no longer be considered an act of reason. Rather, it confined this acknowledgment within the province of revealed religion alone.

The Roberts court has gingerly moved to correct this misinterpretation, but it has been hesitant to address the broader issue: in the public arena, religious beliefs are as valid as any other belief, whether they come from revealed or ideological sources. In May, it missed an opportunity to do so in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, which upheld a lower court ruling that Oklahoma cannot fund a sectarian charter school.

Revealed religion has to have the same rights as the hidden, ideological religions in Washington. Given the many goods Christian-based laws have generated in this country, our nation would be wise to again recognize Christianity as legitimate — and poignant — source of public action.

AUTHOR

David G Bonagura, Jr.

David G. Bonagura, Jr. is the author, most recently, of 100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today, and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. An adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Catholic International University, he serves as the religion editor of The University Bookman, a review of books founded in 1960 by Russell Kirk. His personal website is here.

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SCOTUS Slows Judicial Overreach in Environmental Cases as Ire Grows over Universal Injunctions

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By Family Research Council

A recent decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court has curbed some judicial overreach and continued a thread previously taken up by the nation’s highest court regarding the relationship between judicial interpretations and the authority of government agencies. In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, decided Thursday, the Supreme Court vacated a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit which had itself vacated a decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) that granted permission for construction of a railroad.

The case originated when Seven County Infrastructure Coalition applied to the board for permission to build a railroad in 2020. STB compiled a staggering 3,600-page report on the possible environmental impacts of building the railroad and ultimately concluded “that the project’s transportation and economic benefits outweighed its environmental impacts” and granting permission for the railroad to be constructed.

After lawsuits were filed, the circuit court vacated the STB’s decision, ruling that the board had not properly considered “the potential environmental effects of increased upstream oil drilling … and increased downstream refining of crude oil” in the area where the railroad was to be constructed, citing the provisions established in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, “The D.C. Circuit failed to afford the Board the substantial judicial deference required in NEPA cases and incorrectly interpreted NEPA to require the Board to consider the environmental effects of upstream and downstream projects that are separate in time or place from the” construction and operation of the railroad.

NEPA requires STB and similar agencies to consider the possible environmental impacts of proposed projects and suggest viable alternatives. The Supreme Court’s ruling clarified, “Some federal courts reviewing NEPA cases have assumed an aggressive role in policing agency compliance with NEPA, and have not applied NEPA with the judicial deference demanded by the statutory text and the Court’s cases.” The ruling continued, “When, as here, a party argues that an agency action was arbitrary and capricious due to a deficiency in an EIS, the ‘only role for a court’ is to confirm that the agency has addressed environmental consequences and feasible alternatives as to the relevant project.”

The ruling, authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh and joined by seven of his fellow justices, with Justice Neil Gorsuch recusing himself from the case, stipulated that legal questions are for courts to decide, while “factual determinations” are for the relevant agencies to decide. “Courts should defer to agencies’ discretionary decisions about where to draw the line when considering indirect environmental effects and whether to analyze effects from other projects separate in time or place,” the ruling affirmed.

Specifically, Kavanaugh cited Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, one of a pair of cases which the Supreme Court decided last summer, undoing what was known as the “Chevron doctrine.” In the 1984 case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court instructed all courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute within the scope of its operation if that statute was considered “ambiguous.” The policy significantly bolstered the power of federal agencies to interpret statutes without judicial oversight. Last year, the Supreme Court determined that the Chevron doctrine was unconstitutional, conflicting with both the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the federal judiciary’s constitutional authority to interpret statutory texts and effectively permit executive agencies to usurp the role of the judiciary in interpreting statutes.

Citing Loper, the Supreme Court clarified that although NEPA requires environmental impact reports to be “detailed,” and “the meaning of ‘detailed’ is a legal question … what details need to be included in any given [report] is a factual determination for the agency.” Kavanaugh wrote, “NEPA does not allow courts, ‘under the guise of judicial review’ of agency compliance with NEPA, to delay or block agency projects based on the environmental effects of other projects separate from the project at hand.” He added, “Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness.”

The Supreme Court ruling comes as numerous federal courts have issued sweeping universal injunctions against President Donald Trump and his administration, highlighting calls for the highest court to curb judicial overreach. In comments to The Washington Stand, Article III Project Senior Counsel Will Chamberlain stated, “The court’s decision Thursday was very obviously right — even the Democrats did not dissent. NEPA reviews do not have to be as onerous as the D.C. Circuit suggested.” He added, “The Supreme Court, however, needs to do more to curb the judicial sabotage by resentful lower court judges.”

Within his first 100 days back in the Oval Office, Trump and his administration were slapped with at least 25 universal injunctions by federal district courts, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) have targeted many of the president’s actions, including carrying out mass deportations, withholding federal funds from “sanctuary cities,” ending birthright citizenship, protecting children from harmful gender transition procedures, slashing wasteful agency spending, downsizing the federal workforce, bolstering election integrity, and reorganizing agencies like the Department of Education.

The Trump administration has repeatedly petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene and curtail the lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions. While the Supreme Court has handed the president mixed results — significant wins in some cases and temporary setbacks in others — it has not yet taken action against the increasing use of universal injunctions.

However, the Supreme Court did hear oral arguments in mid-May in a case in which the Trump administration has centered its attention on the rash of injunctions enjoining the president’s agenda. Some justices indicated during oral arguments an openness to curbing universal injunctions but appeared unsatisfied with the Trump administration’s suggestions on what measures to use in place of universal injunctions. A decision in the case is expected by late June or early July.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

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By The Daily Caller

THE PARTY OF EXTREMISM

Along the way I realized what they were really doing was telling on themselves.

Starting somewhere around 2017 I noticed a trend.

As we all know, after Trump won, there was mass hysteria. The increasingly woke left had lost. It defied their imaginations, and so their imaginations got to work. It couldn’t have been that they weren’t popular, it had to be something else.

Oh I know, they thought, everyone who isn’t me is an extremist.

Over the course of about ten years, the media’s usage of “right wing extremism” and “far right” and “radical right” exploded. Just to give you an indication, The Guardian has used the term “far right” in 6,389 articles versus “far left” appearing in just 376.

The trend was so pronounced that Manhattan Institute bubbas did a study they published in The American Conservative.

Here’s a series of graphs from the article.

But what is it exactly they’re calling extreme?

You, Dear Reader. And me. JD Vance. People who think borders are real. People who think gender is real. Is God real to you? You’re an extremist.

Let’s go further, should people be punished for committing crimes? Yes? You’re an extremist!

Is it okay for a man to get in a boxing ring and beat the pulp out of women? First of all, they say, he’s not a man. Oh he is actually? Oops. If the answer is still ‘no,’ guess what: Extremist.

If you won’t refer to an El Salvadorian national who more than likely trafficked human beings for MS-13 as a “Maryland Man” and instead call him an illegal or a “member of MS13” — which are both accurate and literal — then guess what? Yup, extremist again.

You get the point. As the most powerful left wing institutions competed with themselves to get ever further to the left, alienating normal people and losing elections in the process, everyone who was not in their real estate became an extremist to them.

The reality is the reverse though. They’re simply telling on themselves.

Recent months have brought things into sharp focus. Radical student bodies stormed university buildings in support of Hamas, a literal terrorist group. Wine moms and white collar elites burned and defaced Teslas. An illegal alien set a group of elderly people on fire while shrieking “free Palestine.”

This is the contemporary left.

And it isn’t just acts of violence, terrorism, looting, and rioting that they’ve attempted to normalize.

Virtually the entirety of the political left’s intellectual platform is extremist. Castrating mentally unwell children. Legalizing crime. Defending terrorist groups. Policing speech instead of streets. Attacking Western values. Dismantling the family structure. Teaching small children about marginal sexual experiences. Assigning value to people based primarily on their race or, even more perverse, sexual preferences.

They baked a hierarchy of racial and immutable traits into everything they do, from college admissions to government benefits to ads for hardware stores. There are awards in this hyper-liberal bizarro world that you cannot win without publicly reporting the racial makeup of your staff.

Almost nothing that normal people find good in this world is immune.

High School sports, in some ways the last bastion of local community in America, has become an intellectual battleground for a question whose answer is obvious to anyone: Should men physically beat women?

It’s not even a question … unless you work at The New York Times. In that case, it’s worthy of debate.

As the old adage goes in politics, “whatever they accuse you of doing, they’re actually doing.”

AUTHOR

Geoffrey Ingersoll

Editor at Large.

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SCOTUS Hands Trump Full Control of Federal Agencies — Lawfare Era is Over

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By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com

Mike Netter (@nettermike) posted on X the following:

The Supreme Court just detonated the Deep State’s last defense line. In a historic ruling, President Donald J. Trump has been granted full constitutional authority to remove the heads of all so-called “independent” federal agencies — without cause, delay, or interference.

The age of bureaucratic sabotage is over. The President is now back in full command.

This isn’t just a legal victory. It’s the collapse of an empire built in the shadows — the unelected regime of agency heads, Obama-era loyalists, and lawfare architects who thought they could rule from the back rooms while pretending Trump was just a figurehead.

Now he holds the sword. And the purge begins.

The Court’s decision confirms Trump can immediately terminate entrenched operatives like Gwynne Wilcox (NLRB) and Cathy Harris (Merit Systems Protection Board), along with anyone else weaponizing federal authority against the people. No hearings. No negotiations. Just direct executive power — as defined in Article II of the Constitution.

The implications are seismic.

For years, Trump’s presidency was bogged down not by political opposition — but by a lawless administrative state. Obscure boards, rogue departments, and legal “watchdogs” became the enforcement arm of the globalist agenda. Their mission: delay, derail, and destroy Trump’s America First policies from within.

Now, the illusion of “independence” is gone.

Every federal action now flows through the President.

No more slow-walking directives. No more unsigned memos sabotaging the border. No more internal resistance using legal tricks to override elected leadership. With this ruling, Trump can fire, replace, and restructure every agency blocking the will of the people.

And he will.

The lawfare machine is collapsing.

This decision strikes directly at the administrative state — the fourth, unelected branch of government that has operated unchecked for decades. Trump can now do what he was elected to do: clean house. Permanently.

Expect mass terminations. Expect loyalty reviews. Expect restructuring on a scale this country has never seen.

This is not about two agency heads.
This is about destroying the system that protected them.

“This was never about Wilcox or Harris,” said one insider.

“It was about removing the Deep State’s last defense. And it’s gone.”

Under Trump’s restored authority, the bureaucratic strongholds that enabled censorship, open borders, economic sabotage, and globalist control are now wide open. And the people who’ve been hiding behind policy walls and HR protections are finally exposed.

The Deep State lost its shield. Now it faces the sword.

This ruling isn’t policy reform — it’s a reset of executive power. It’s the return of the Republic. And it’s the beginning of the greatest political purge in modern American history.

The President now commands the government.

The war on lawfare is over. And Trump just won!!!!’

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Gun Owners Can Be Arrested For Concealed Carrying After Crossing State Lines — But There’s A Solution

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By The Daily Caller

While Americans acquire training to apply for concealed carry permits, Second Amendment groups are pushing Congress to pass concealed carry reciprocity legislation so gun owners are not arrested after crossing state lines.

The Daily Caller went to the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) gun range in Fairfax, Virginia, and attended Live Fire Instruction’s pistol fundamentals course in May.

Participants who complete the class are eligible to apply for a Virginia Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW) permit.

“We were so busy during COVID, we were booked months and months out,” Lisa Paris, founder and owner of Live Fire Instruction, told the Caller. “I probably could have taught a class every single day during COVID, because the level of fear was so high.”

Gun ownership, especially among women, spiked during COVID-19.

Women comprised 71 percent of first-time gun buyers from 2021 to 2024, according to a 2024 report by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).

Women “woke up” during the pandemic, Paris said.

“I think a lot of people were like, ‘the government, they’re not going to protect me. I’m going to have to do this myself.’ And a lot of women did that,” she added.

The summer of 2020 was embroiled in protests and riots after George Floyd’s death, prompting many Americans to purchase firearms for self-defense.

Gun purchases skyrocketed that year, and the majority of buyers were women, according to Harvard data.

“Over the past five years, a growing number of Americans became first-time gun owners, particularly women, motivated by the desire to protect themselves and their families,” Josh Savani, executive director of NRA General Operations, said in a statement to the Caller.

The majority of U.S. gun owners cited “protection” as the primary reason for having a firearm, according to a 2023 Pew Research study.

However, Americans can face legal troubles while concealed carrying, even with a government-issued permit.

Republicans in Congress are pushing for concealed carry reciprocity with the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.

The bill, introduced by Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson, would enable individuals to concealed carry across state lines. The legislation would allow an individual with a valid government permit to carry in another state, providing that state also recognizes concealed carry.

It was introduced in January 2025 and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

In Virginia, individuals must take a “competency class” to obtain a concealed carry license, according to Paris.

“Other states are way more demanding, and then you have other states that are nothing. So, Virginia is kind of in the middle of you have to do something, but it’s not extreme, right?” she told the Caller.

Virginia is a “shall-issue” state, and residents must file permit applications with their county circuit court, according to the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA). Residents need to complete a state-approved course.

Other states have stricter requirements.

New York requires applicants take a safety training course, present four character references, disclose who lives with them and be interviewed by a licensing officer.

West Virginia, a constitutional carry state, has no permit requirement.

Hudson’s legislation would ensure that law-abiding Americans can exercise their constitutional rights in states that allow concealed carry, Executive Director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) John Commerford told the Caller.

“If you freely travel … today, you will go through states that don’t require a permit,” he said. “You’ll go through states that require a permit but have reciprocity with your current state permit. And then you’ll cross the state line, and you’ll automatically become a felon for conduct that was lawful a mile behind you, but now you cross into New Jersey or New York or Massachusetts, and your right to self-defense went out the window.”

Police have arrested gun owners for concealed carrying in states that did not issue their permit.

Lloyd Muldrow, a Marine Corps veteran, had a concealed carry permit in Virginia. Muldrow claimed he “disarmed a man who was threatening people” in a pub in Baltimore, Maryland. He was arrested because his permit was not considered valid in Maryland.

Muldrow is not the only person to have fallen prey to concealed carry regulations, either.

Commerford pointed to the case of Shaneen Allen. She was pulled over in New Jersey and later arrested for carrying a handgun with a Pennsylvania concealed carry permit, NBC 10 reported in 2017.

She could have faced years in prison, but Allen was ultimately pardoned by then-Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

“[The] Second Amendment doesn’t discriminate on zip code,” Commerford emphasized.

There are various ways for new gun owners to learn the fundamentals of firearms so they can acquire a concealed carry license if their state of residency requires one.

Paris said the two most signicant takeaways for participants in her class are safety and enjoyment.

“Probably the biggest thing from this particular class is safety. You’re not hurting yourself, and you’re not hurting anybody else,” she said. “And then enjoy the sport. Once you love the sport, you’ll come to the gun range and shoot for fun. And then you’ll also be a responsible gun owner, because you’re practicing the sport.”

The NRA provides several firearms training classes, including courses for women.

“As the nation’s leader in firearms safety and training, the NRA is a trusted resource for new gun owners from all walks of life who are seeking top-tier instruction and education,” Savani said in a statement to the Caller.

“With a nationwide network of over 100,000 certified instructors, NRA courses equip gun owners with the skills and confidence to safely handle, store, and maintain their firearms. We’re especially proud to offer programs tailored specifically for women, including our Women on Target® Instructional Shooting Clinics, as well as specialized self-defense and concealed carry training,” he continued. “The NRA is committed to empowering all law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment freedoms and the right to self-defense.”

Hudson’s bill is not the only legislation making its way through Congress that could dramatically impact gun rights.

The House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in May, including Section 2 of the Hearing Protection Act. That provision would remove suppressors from the National Firearms Act (NFA).

If the legislation is implemented, it would “be the biggest win for gun owners in my generation,” Commerford told the Caller.

The NFA mandates that suppressors (otherwise known as “silencers”) be registered with the federal government, according to the NRA. The Hearing Protection Act would also remove the $200 tax, and buyers would be subject to a background check instead of an “onerous federal transfer process,” according to the NRA Hunters’ Leadership Forum.

The NFA falls under the Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and the Trump admin is taking steps to make the agency less hostile to gun owners.

The ATF updated its national policy on federal firearm licensee inspections in May, replacing the Biden administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy.

The ATF previously announced that the bureau, along with the DOJ, will be reviewing two other Biden-era firearms policies.

AUTHOR

Eireann Van Natta

Associate Editor.

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Analysis: Biden Unaware of Executive Orders ‘Signed’ by Autopen

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By Family Research Council

President Joe Biden issued 162 executive orders over the course of his Oval Office tenure, but according to a new report, most of them were signed by “autopen,” giving rise to concerns that unelected White House staffers may have had more say in shaping policy than the president. The report is furthering those concerns and suggesting that Biden may not have even been aware of the existence of the orders being signed in his name.

The American energy advocacy group Power the Future published the report Wednesday, examining eight Biden-era executive orders on climate change and U.S. energy policy, and found “no evidence” that Biden ever spoke about or acknowledged the existence of any of these orders. “Not in a press conference. Not in a speech. Not even a video statement,” Power the Future’s report stated. Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner said in a statement, “Americans deserve to know which unelected staffers or radical unnamed activists implemented sweeping change through an autopen. The Biden energy agenda destroyed the livelihoods of energy workers and fueled the record-high inflation that broke the budgets of millions of Americans.” He asked, “The question is simple, and deserves an immediate answer: what did Joe Biden know, and when did he know it?”

According to the Oversight Project, dedicated to government accountability, practically every order signed by Biden was signed via autopen, with the exception of his announcement withdrawing from the 2024 presidential election. The Oversight Project cited House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who questioned Biden on an executive order affecting liquefied natural gas (LNG) and reported that the president didn’t remember signing the order. “He looks at me, stunned, and he said, ‘I didn’t do that,’” Johnson recounted. He continued, “And I said to him, ‘Mr. President, yes you did, it was an executive order, like, you know, three weeks ago.’ And he goes, ‘No, I didn’t do that.’ … It occurred to me … he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed.”

“For investigators to determine whether then-President Biden actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents, or if he even had the mental capacity to, they must first determine who controlled the autopen and what checks there were in place,” the Oversight Project wrote in a social media post. The accountability organization continued, “Given President Biden’s decision to revoke Executive Privilege for individuals advising Trump during his first Presidency, this is a knowable fact that can be determined with the correct legal process…”

The “autopen” has been the subject of significant controversy in recent years due to Biden’s excessive use of the technology. Devices have been around for centuries, allowing individuals to replicate their signature or sign multiple documents at once. Thomas Jefferson, for example, kept an early prototype, then called a “polygraph,” in the White House and another in his residence at Monticello. The device allowed a user to sign multiple documents at once but did require the signer to be present and to actively use the machine.

In the late 1930s, an automated version of the machine was developed, called the “autopen,” which would store a template of a signature that could be reproduced without the presence of the actual signer. The autopen became commercially available in the early 1940s and was quickly purchased by politicians, government officials, celebrities, and others. The first U.S. president to use an autopen was reportedly Harry Truman, although he only used the device to sign checks and answer mail. Likewise, most other presidents — such as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, or Gerald Ford — who used an autopen relegated their use of the instrument to signing checks, correspondence, and autographs.

George W. Bush considered using the autopen to sign executive orders and legislation and even got the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) approval to do so, but still insisted on signing such documents himself, flying to Washington, D.C. to sign emergency legislation in 2005, for example. Barack Obama was the first president to use the autopen to sign legislation, giving his approval to sign Patriot Act extensions via autopen while he was visiting France in 2011, the National Defense Authorization Act while vacationing in Hawaii in 2012, and fiscal legislation in 2013.

President Donald Trump has openly refused to use autopen signatures for executive orders and other legal documents. “We may use it, as an example, to send some young person a letter because it’s nice,” Trump told reporters in March. Contrasting his limited use of the autopen against Biden’s much broader use, Trump added, “But to sign pardons and all of the things that he signed with an autopen is disgraceful.” Trump has also suggested that pardons — and, potentially, executive orders — signed by the Biden administration via autopen may be legally “void” if the president didn’t know what he was signing or didn’t authorize its signature.

The Washington Stand asked the DOJ about potential investigations and, if applicable, prosecutions of the Biden administration’s autopen use and was told, “No comment here.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Social Security Fraud Just Tip Of The Iceberg, Trump’s New Commissioner Says

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By The Daily Caller

Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano said Social Security numbers are vulnerable to exploitation and fraud across multiple government agencies, from the DMV to Medicare.

The former Wall Street executive, confirmed earlier this month after the agency cycled through five leadership changes in five months, said the problem extends far beyond Social Security benefit fraud to encompass the entire federal system where the numbers are used for identification.

“Fraud can happen in many ways. It doesn’t just have to be through Social Security,” Bisignano said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It could be on the many ways people use a Social Security number to get access …  the Social Security number needs to be a lockdown number.”

Bisignano also warned that because social security numbers are used by multiple federal agencies, fraud risks can balloon beyond the social security system. He said he would be trying to find coordinated solutions to head off fraud.

“The job is about building the largest level of integrity, the highest accuracy rate,” he said.

The commissioner said he is implementing artificial intelligence systems and operational overhauls to address these vulnerabilities across the agency’s 500 million annual interactions with Americans. He said current systems fall short of acceptable security standards.

The agency currently operates with a 1% error rate, he said, but Bisignano aims for “five nines” accuracy — 99.999% — comparable to private sector standards.

“If you’re running at something below that, it will give way to mediocrity at best, and will give way to failure and opportunity for bad things to happen,” he said.

Bisignano has been visiting field offices nationwide to assess operations firsthand, including recent trips to New Jersey locations. He emphasized the importance of understanding ground-level operations before implementing changes.

“I always believed that I need to go see the word to understand the work,” he said. “My job is to help them do their job better and bring the tools.”

In addition, Bisignano rejected Democratic criticism that the Trump administration seeks to cut Social Security benefits, citing his personal background as the son of a World War II veteran and federal agent.

“The idea that I’d be doing anything other than trying to bolster it up is just crazy,” he said.

The commissioner also announced the agency expects to complete Fairness Act payments by the end of June, delivering benefits to 3.2 million Americans ahead of the initially projected timeline of one year.

“This organization will learn how to execute with excellence,” Bisignano told the DCNF.

AUTHOR

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DCNF Technology Reporter.

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Now that the US House has approved its version of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, voter expectations to see these promises kept are very high.

Disappointing voters, especially non-GOP voters, will have grave consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections and beyond if the senate plays too hard and makes big changes to the One Big, Beautiful Bill.

GOP Senators know the slim margin in the House. They know the changes that would make it dead on arrival for a final vote on the bill.

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Rick Scott Tells Charlie Kirk He Won’t Support Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ In Present Form

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By The Daily Caller

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday that he would not vote for President Donald Trump’s House-passed “one big, beautiful bill” in its present form.

Trump gave Senate Republicans permission to make major changes to the bill on Sunday as some GOP senators are warning that the package is dead-on-arrival without significant reforms. On “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Scott said he would “absolutely” vote against it without additional spending cuts.

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“If they brought it to the floor like right now, there’s not a chance it’ll get the 51 votes it needs … Look we all know we have to balance the budget,” Scott said. “Look, we know that it’s getting harder to sell our treasuries, we know interest rates are going up. We want to get interest rates down, we can get inflation under control. That means balance the budget.”

Kirk said Scott’s opposition to the current bill was “a big statement.” The host asked the senator what it would take to get the bill to pass and about the reconciliation process.

“Charlie, we’ll change it. We’ll have our own bill and … it will go back to a conference or just go back to the House and they’ll pass our bill. But I believe we’re going to dramatically reduce mandatory spending to get this budget balance in a short period of time, which is what we have to do,” Scott told Kirk. “It’s what we promise. I just went through my election just like President Trump did. We all promise we’re going to balance the budget. We are going to set the process to quickly balance in this budget.”

GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky are among the fiscal hawks influencing the deliberation about spending deficits. Johnson has also noted Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Scott as senators who are seeking further spending cuts in the bill.

Johnson is advocating for the government to return to pre-pandemic spending levels — a nearly $6 trillion reduction — and calls the current bill “completely unacceptable.”

While House Republicans felt pressured to accept the bill due to the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, numerous Senators do not.

“In the House, President Trump can threaten a primary, and those guys want to keep their seats. I understand the pressure. Can’t pressure me that way,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. “I’m not going to vote for it with minor tweaks. I think everybody’s kind of happy talking and ‘get together and pull together and gotta do this’ and that crap. That’s the way they’re going to try to make it go.”

Paul has said that he opposes the bill based on language that will increase the debt limit by $4 trillion over the next two years — something Trump has demanded.

“I’ve told them if they’ll take the debt ceiling off of it, I’ll consider voting for it,” Paul told reporters on Thursday. “We’ve never, ever voted to raise the debt ceiling this much. It’ll be a historic increase. I think it’s not good for conservatives to be on record supporting a $4 (trillion) or $5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling.”

“If they were to take the debt ceiling off of it and have the tax reductions and spending reductions, I’d probably vote for that,” Paul added. “The spending reductions are imperfect, and I think wimpy, but I’d still vote for the package if I didn’t have to vote to raise the debt ceiling.”

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The Chickens Coming Home to Roost

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By John Droz, Jr.

I recently read an interesting article in the Carolina Journal: “The work habits of Gen Z: A wake-up call for employers and educators.” The author, a current college professor, makes some good observations about what he describes as a deplorable situation.

In essence, he has concluded that many Gen Z students/citizens are averse to traditional employment. He goes on to name a few reasons why many of them would rather be self-employed as “influencers” rather than have a 9-5 job producing helpful products, supplying meaningful services, etc.

I’m writing this as I believe that he missed some of the most significant reasons for this far-reaching attitude change. But first, we must understand who benefits from this degradation: the Left. In other words: Anti-Americans.

One of the historical trademarks of Americans has been their strong work ethic. Those whose goal is to bring America down know very well that if they can undermine that work ethic, we will soon descend into third-world status. Great empires in the past have collapsed for lesser reasons!

To bring about this end, the Left has purposefully infiltrated much of our society, but their top priority is our K-12 education system. Their objective was to take control of the curriculum, which they have done. Our current situation is that we are unwittingly (or is it knowingly?) helping them produce graduates who will be the very agents of our undoing! The professor’s article simply points out a few of the expected (and intended) red-flag results.

Some of the Left’s Education Strategies —

Here are some of the tactics (many of them subtle) that the Left has used to undermine the K-12 education of our children…

  1. Grade inflation is rampant: students are awarded for just showing up. (See here and here.) What type of work ethic is that communicating?
  2. Using a calculator: why bother learning (i.e., understanding) any boring math when you can just click some keys and quickly get the answers?
  3. Artificial Intelligence: why sweat over such mundane things as research or laborious thinking, when AI can do it for you in a minute? (See here.)
  4. Social media: why pay attention in class, when a lot more interesting things are going on every day on social media, just a click away?
  5. Woke: The clear message to students is: a minority or “disadvantaged” status takes precedence over merit. Got it. Sign me up as a victim.
  6. Discard traditional Religion, which instills old-fashioned fundamental values. Instead, grab onto the deceptively attractive — and atheistic — SEL.
  7. Age-inappropriate books and videos are spreading like wildfire in K-12. Their purpose is to undermine traditional values, distract students from learning, and encourage them to join a privileged minority.
  8. Cheating is pervasive. If students have few morals, and the objective is to get high grades (not to actually learn), then the end justifies the means.
  9. Worst of all, the opposite of Critical Thinking (conformity) is aggressively being taught, so students have been purposefully prevented from being able to understand the foolishness of their choices.

Takeaway —

I could go on, but you get the points:

a) there are several powerful forces undermining the work ethic [and value system] of our children,

b) the most problematic of these is the corrupt K-12 curriculum,

c) stunningly, no major conservative organization is doing anything meaningful about this tsunami threat, and d) amazingly, this well-intentioned article didn’t mention a single one of these major problems!…

How can we possibly fix what we don’t acknowledge?

I will repeat what I have argued before: 1) this issue is not only monumental, but arguably the most significant threat to the American experiment, and 2) we currently have the power (and a window of opportunity) to fix MOST of this if we play our cards right with the US Department of Education (see here).

Will we wake up in time, or be enticed by the Pied Piper over the precipice?

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