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Landmark bill targets hidden foreign funds in schools as officials warn of CCP influence

By: Charles Creitz — June 7th 2024 at 16:56
A House bill will provide parents with more oversight of any foreign sources or funding of their children's curriculum, its sponsor said.

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Maryland elementary school faces backlash over Pledge of Allegiance, 'mandatory patriotism'

By: Bailee Hill — June 7th 2024 at 09:54
One elementary school is no longer requiring students and staff to recite the Pledge of Allegiance after pressure from a free speech group.

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Trump hints at when he'll reveal his running mate and more top headlines

— June 7th 2024 at 05:49
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Trump proves critics wrong again when asked about plan to get retribution on Democrats and more top headlines

— June 6th 2024 at 06:06
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Hunter Biden trial enters 3rd day with cross-examination of FBI agent and more top headlines

— June 5th 2024 at 06:09
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WATCH: NBC Legal Analyst Glenn Kirschner Tells Liberals to File Complaints Against Judge Cannon

By: Joel B. Pollak · Joel B. Pollak — June 4th 2024 at 08:56

NBC and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner has been revealed as the origin of an "orchestrated campaign" to file complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump's case in Florida.

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Opening statements to begin in Hunter Biden's criminal trial and more headlines

— June 4th 2024 at 06:24
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Police: Missouri Mother Murders Both Children, Tries to 'Sacrifice' Son Before Drowning Him

By: Olivia Rondeau · Olivia Rondeau — June 3rd 2024 at 14:58

A Missouri woman has been charged with first degree murder after reportedly admitting to killing both of her children, telling officers she attempted to "sacrifice" her two-year-old son.

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Hunter Biden's federal gun trial begins with jury selection and more top headlines

— June 3rd 2024 at 05:27
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Lobster-shaped monster truck topples utility poles in Maine mishap

— June 2nd 2024 at 16:50
The lobster-shaped "Crushstation" monster truck struck a power line after going airborne during a Saturday event at Maine's Topsham Fairgrounds.

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Trump verdict puts US among infamous countries that prosecuted opposition leaders: Who else is on the list?

By: Peter Aitken — June 1st 2024 at 14:59
Donald Trump has accused President Biden of using criminal prosecution to try and prevent him from running for office, but the White House has kept its distance from the trial.

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Supreme Court Rules 9-0 New York Violated NRA’s First Amendment Rights, Good News for Trump

By: Ken Klukowski · Ken Klukowski — May 30th 2024 at 12:29

The National Rifle Association (NRA) won at the Supreme Court against New York and the anti-gun movement Thursday, unanimously ruling that the NRA’s First Amendment rights were violated by politicians who oppose the Second Amendment, in a major victory with implications for former President Trump.

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Trump fires warning shot to Biden as he gets ready to hit campaign trail again and more top headlines

— May 31st 2024 at 06:32
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Mississippi family fears retaliation from carjackers caught on home camera: 'It's not safe'

By: Taylor Penley — May 30th 2024 at 12:00
Mississippi resident Heather Allen told "Fox & Friends First" she is afraid carjackers could return and retaliate against her family as police continue their search for the suspects.

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New Louisiana law criminalizes approaching police after being ordered to stay back

— May 30th 2024 at 06:47
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed legislation making it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet of a police officer while they are "engaged in law enforcement duties" after the officer has ordered the person to stay back.

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Jury starts day two of Trump trial deliberations and more top headlines

— May 30th 2024 at 06:10
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Short questions with Dana Perino for Todd Piro

By: Dana Perino — May 30th 2024 at 03:00
For this week's "Short questions with Dana Perino," co-anchor Todd Piro of "Fox & Friends First" reveals the three presidents he'd invite to a dinner party — and the best advice he's ever received.

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North Dakota officials testify on growing dangers as illegal immigration surges on northern border

By: Elizabeth Heckman — May 29th 2024 at 15:00
Walhalla Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rebecca Davis discusses the surge of illegal immigration in North Dakota ahead of her testimony to Congress.

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LA man's French bulldog stolen at gunpoint on evening walk: 'It's getting worse and worse'

By: Bailee Hill — May 29th 2024 at 13:24
Mario Felix is pleading for the public's help to secure his French bulldog's safe return home after she was taken during an armed robbery over the weekend.

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Jury to begin deliberations in Trump trial and more top headlines

— May 29th 2024 at 05:22
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Feds Knew Joe Biden Met Hunter's Chinese Partners on Official Trip, Whistleblower Emails Show

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 28th 2024 at 11:07

Federal agents found evidence in 2016 that Hunter Biden connected prospective Chinese business partners with then-Vice President Joe Biden.

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Closing arguments set to begin in Trump trial and more top headlines

— May 28th 2024 at 05:48
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Biden's $320M Gaza pier: Over budget and under constant threat, a 'purely political' misadventure

By: Peter Aitken — May 25th 2024 at 14:11
The Gaza humanitarian aid pier project has run to a cost that is estimated at double its initial budget as additional hurdles drive the overall costs even higher, and aid delivery remains at a trickle.

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Christian legal firm celebrates win as Chase scales back 'debanking' policy

By: Jamie Joseph — May 24th 2024 at 08:30
Christian law firm lauds JPMorgan Chase for retracting controversial WePay policy, which barred transactions related to "social risk issues."

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DOJ's inspector general takes heat for allegedly 'targeting political opponents' and more top headlines

— May 24th 2024 at 06:40
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Faith-based group prevails as judge rules 'vague' DC transit group's ad guideline restricts free speech

By: Megan Myers — May 23rd 2024 at 16:00
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertisement restrictions were a violation of the First Amendment on Tuesday.

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Hunter Biden Lied to Congress, Republicans Say After Release of Records 

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 23rd 2024 at 08:50

Hunter Biden lied to Congress during his recent deposition, Republican lawmakers said Wednesday after the House Ways and Means Committee voted to release IRS whistleblower records.

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Someone Called ‘Dad’ Is in a WeChat Conversation with Hunter Biden

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 23rd 2024 at 10:55

A WeChat message thread from 2017 between Hunter and James Biden included a person named "Dad," IRS whistleblower records show.

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Homeless man accused of viciously attacking elderly LA couple back on streets: 'Should never have happened'

By: Bailee Hill — May 23rd 2024 at 12:00
The family of an elderly couple is seeking justice after they were attacked in Los Angeles in March, leaving one brain-dead. The alleged attacker was released without bail.

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Biden looks to upset potential Trump win with long-lasting impact on courts and more top headlines

— May 23rd 2024 at 06:40
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Experts slam ICC for quick case against Israel while ignoring brutal regimes: 'Totally politically driven'

By: Peter Aitken — May 23rd 2024 at 03:00
The International Criminal Court's jurisdiction only allows it to go after countries that are signatories or have committed crimes against signatories of the Rome Statute.

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House Democrat blasts Ireland, Spain, Norway recognition of Palestinian state as 'gift to Hamas'

By: Danielle Wallace — May 22nd 2024 at 11:23
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., slammed Ireland, Spain and Norway's decision as a "gift to Hamas," despite him advocating for "Palestinian self-determination and statehood."

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Florida skate rink owner says canceled party sparked riot involving kids: 'They came to fight'

By: Amy Nelson — May 22nd 2024 at 10:15
Astro Skating Center owner Chris Manganias said young teenagers were "cussing, screaming, threatening the police" after an event at the rink was canceled due to contract violations.

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Missouri attorney general requests records from Kansas City related to Harrison Butker doxing post

By: Paulina Dedaj — May 22nd 2024 at 07:00
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey spoke to “OutKick the Morning" with Charly Arnolt Thursday to outline the steps his office taking after Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker was doxed.

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Biden admin adds $7,700,000,000 to taxpayer tab with new student debt handout and more top headlines

— May 22nd 2024 at 06:34
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Former Israeli leader urges 'dismantling' of ICC over arrest warrants: 'Political tool'

By: Peter Aitken — May 22nd 2024 at 03:00
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan assembled a panel of experts to determine whether to request arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, ultimately deciding to pursue both.

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Report: Biden Admin Has Paid Taliban Nearly $11 Million Since Withdrawal Disaster

By: John Hayward · John Hayward — May 21st 2024 at 14:41

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that Joe Biden has overseen $10.9 million in payments to the Taliban.

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Former school campus becomes tent city as Mississippi neighborhood's homeless population reaches crisis point

By: Taylor Penley — May 21st 2024 at 13:00
Patrick Murphy, whose Mississippi neighborhood has been devastated by an uptick in the homeless population, told "Fox & Friends First" about the ongoing struggle.

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Gillibrand: Biden Can't Reverse His Reversal of Trump Immigration Policies

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — May 21st 2024 at 02:35

On Monday’s broadcast of Fox 5’s “Good Day New York,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) claimed that President Joe Biden can’t reverse his reversal of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies because “The law on asylum is really clear. If you

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China sanctions former Republican Rep Mike Gallagher after Taiwan president's inauguration

By: Danielle Wallace — May 21st 2024 at 08:11
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher, who left Congress last month, was slapped with sanctions by China on Tuesday after Taiwan's new president was inaugurated.

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Judge could make game-changing decision in Trump trial and more top headlines

— May 21st 2024 at 05:45
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Black voters rip Biden's 'race baiting' commencement speech as his support dwindles: 'Party of hopelessness'

By: Bailee Hill — May 20th 2024 at 13:00
Black voters slammed Biden for 'race baiting' in his commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta over the weekend as he fights to maintain support in the key voting bloc.

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Wife of Julian Assange arrives at London hearing as court decides if WikiLeaks founder will be extradited

— May 20th 2024 at 09:30
Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, spoke to supporters ahead of Julian's hearing that could see him extradited to the U.S. or could give him another chance to appeal.

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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Right to Appeal Extradition to United States

By: Kurt Zindulka · Kurt Zindulka — May 20th 2024 at 07:04

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted the right to appeal his extradition to the United States by London's High Court on Monday

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Iran president killed in chopper crash, Cohen returns to hot seat and more top headlines

— May 20th 2024 at 06:20
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Crowds on Demand has received over 100 'lucrative' anti-Israel requests since Oct 7

By: Greg Wehner — May 20th 2024 at 05:00
Crowds on Demand, based in California, turned down over 100 requests to send people to Gaza-related protests after Oct. 7, 2023, and turned them all down.

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Amy Kremer Elected RNC National Committeewoman for Georgia

By: Elizabeth Weibel · Elizabeth Weibel — May 19th 2024 at 11:27

Amy Kremer, the cofounder of Women for Trump, was elected to represent the Georgia Republican Party (GAGOP) at the Republican National Committee (RNC) as the committeewoman for the state.

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Philippine mayor accused of acting as Chinese asset amid investigation, tensions

By: Peter Aitken — May 18th 2024 at 15:12
Alice Guo provided what Philippine senators called "opaque" answers to questions about her background, leading to serious allegations about her allegiances.

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Argentina's Milei shuts up critics with miracle turnaround of economy, strong security policies

By: Peter Aitken — May 18th 2024 at 10:45
Argentina elected Javier Milei as the country struggled with some of the highest inflation in the world, seeking radical change in the face of crisis.

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California School District Settles with Christian Ex-Teacher Fired After Rejecting Transgender Policies

By: Katherine Hamilton · Katherine Hamilton — May 17th 2024 at 16:29

A California school district has agreed to pay a Christian ex-teacher $360,000 in a settlement after she was fired following her refusal to hide students' "gender identities" from parents and use students' "preferred pronouns."

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Mitt Romney vs. Rand Paul Proxy War Ignites in North Dakota's Congressional Race

By: Wendell Husebø · Wendell Husebø — May 17th 2024 at 13:24

Dr. Rick Becker, the front-runner to win North Dakota’s at-large congressional seat, is in the middle of a proxy war between the Republican establishment and America First conservatives.

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Harrison Butker triggers backlash from left for commencement speech: 'Being treated like a criminal'

By: Bailee Hill — May 17th 2024 at 13:00
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has garnered both praise and scrutiny for a family values commencement speech at a Catholic college earlier this week.

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AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene trade barbs as explosive exchange gets personal and more top headlines

— May 17th 2024 at 06:24
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I was thrown out of California public library for discussing if it’s fair for men to compete in women’s sports

By: Sophia Lorey — May 17th 2024 at 01:00
Library officials shut down the forum after only a few minutes, claiming that referring to male athletes in women’s sports as "men" violated library policy.

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Anti-Trump Lawmakers Push Bill to Scrap Trump-Era Win for Veterans' Health Care

By: Sean Moran · Sean Moran — May 16th 2024 at 17:01

Jon Tester (D) and Matt Rosendale (R) are pushing a healthcare bill that could undermine one of Donald Trump's signature Veterans Affairs reforms.

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New York Times reporters hit back at boss for questioning objectivity: ‘Your staff is not full of activists’

By: Jeffrey Clark — May 16th 2024 at 08:44
Staff reporters at the New York Times bashed their boss after the executive editor said the paper should reflect multiple points of view.

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Trump's legal team prepares for final face-off with Cohen and more top headlines

— May 16th 2024 at 06:33
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Nashville hotel faces legal scrutiny for canceling pro-Israel summit over 'safety' concerns

By: Taylor Penley — May 15th 2024 at 10:00
Luke Hilton, marketing director at HaYovel, and Hiram Sasser of First Liberty Institute reacted to the Tennessee hotel abruptly canceling the pro-Israel event.

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Trump allies blast prosecution's 'star witness' Michael Cohen in NY criminal trial and more top headlines

— May 15th 2024 at 06:31
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GOP senators blast Biden admin moves in Africa as Russia looks to fill vacuum

By: Paul Tilsley — May 15th 2024 at 03:00
Senior GOP senators are voicing concern over President Biden's Africa policy. This follows Niger and Chad telling U.S. troops to leave as analysts say the U.S. is losing influence to Russia and China.

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Ex-con Michael Cohen back on the stand in NY v Trump and more top headlines

— May 14th 2024 at 05:39
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San Francisco under fire for program giving booze to homeless alcoholics: 'Where's the recovery in all this?'

By: Taylor Penley — May 13th 2024 at 10:00
Recovering addict and recovery advocate Tom Wolf said San Francisco's "Managed Alcohol Program" misses the mark when taxpayer funds could go toward other programs to combat addiction.

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NY v. Trump trial to resume with 'star witness' Michael Cohen expected to take stand and more top headlines

— May 13th 2024 at 05:29
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NJ voters say Trump could flip state red despite legal woes: 'There's momentum'

By: Bailee Hill — May 11th 2024 at 06:00
New Jersey voters argued Trump can flip the Garden State red in November, pointing to a surge in voter registration as he prepares to rally tens of thousands in Wildwood.

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Court rules Pennsylvania borough ordinance cracking down on lawn signs is unconstitutional

— May 10th 2024 at 20:59
A federal appeals court has ruled against a Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, ordinance aimed at cutting down on the abundance of political lawn signs.

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Potential Trump VP pick goes on the offensive against Biden’s threat to Israel and more top headlines

— May 10th 2024 at 06:31
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VP Harris called out for 'pandering' to Black voters with 'extraordinary gentlemen' dinners

By: Taylor Penley — May 10th 2024 at 06:00
Political strategist Scherie Murray and Jamiel Shaw, whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant, weighed in on the Black community's dwindling support for Biden.

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Oh, yeah: The Samizdat Prize

By: Scott Johnson — March 7th 2024 at 18:19
(Scott Johnson)

RealClearFoundation president David DesRosiers has announced the inaugural winners of of its Samizdat Prize. Tonight’s the night. The Samizdat Prize is intended to honor the most important users of the First Amendment in the United States. The prize aspires to confer the honor that various of the Pulitzer Prizes bestow and should replace them in the mind of right-thinking men and women. In the words of DesRosiers, the award that is given by Real Clear to journalists, scholars, and public figures who have fought censorship and stood for truth, whatever the cost.

The first three recipients of the Samizdat Prize could not be more worthy: Miranda Devine (for her work on the Biden family business), Jay Bhattacharya (the anti-Fauci), and Matt Taibbi (for his work on the Twitter Files). I have written about all three many times on Power Line. DesRosiers talked about the prize with Buck Sexton here in a discussion posted at RCP.

Dr. Bhattacharya received the prize this past September. His remarks are posted here at RCP. Matt Taibbi has just posted “America enters the samizadat era” at his Racket News site. He looks back on his career in acknowledging the honor he receives tonight. Thanks to John Hinderaker, I met Matt last year. Politics aside, we have cheered him on and sought to follow his path in our own way.

Miranda Devine wrote in her New York Post Devine Online newsletter this morning:

I am thrilled to be in Palm Beach tonight to receive the inaugural Samizdat award from RealClearPolitics, alongside pandemic refusenik Dr Jay Battacharya and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi.

It’s an honor to be part of this grassroots movement to reclaim honest journalism in an era of lies.

“Samizdat” was the name of the underground press resisting the tyranny of the former Soviet Union.

It means ‘We publish ourselves” and was the inspiration for David DesRosiers, publisher and president of RealClear Foundation, to set up a rival journalism award to the Pulitzers.

Bravo to RealClear for bucking the establishment.

I couldn’t agree more. I would only add our congratulations to the inaugural recipients of the Samizdat Prize.

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Jordan Claims That Holiest Site In Judaism Must Be Free of Jews

By: Hugh Fitzgerald — April 11th 2023 at 09:00
Jordan Claims That Holiest Site In Judaism Must Be Free of Jews
The Temple Mount (for the Muslims, Haram al-Sharif) is the holiest site in Judaism, the place where both the First and Second Temples were built and then destroyed, the first in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians, and the second by the Romans in 70 A.D. It is also the third holiest site in Islam, after […]
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ATF and IRS Show How the Biden Regime Has Weaponized Government Agencies

By: Robert Spencer — March 29th 2023 at 05:00
ATF and IRS Show How the Biden Regime Has Weaponized Government Agencies
New in PJ Media: The days when it could be taken for granted that government agencies were impartial, nonpartisan, and dedicated to carrying out their responsibilities in a fair and even-handed manner are long gone. As Stephen Green pointed out Tuesday, on the very same day that journalist Matt Taibbi of Twitter Files fame was testifying before […]
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Malaysia: Sharia enforcers arrest seven men for wearing shorts

By: Robert Spencer — March 24th 2023 at 16:00
Malaysia: Sharia enforcers arrest seven men for wearing shorts
What fun the Sharia enforcers will have before too long in, say, the south of France. “Report: Kelantan Islamic law enforcers haul up seven men for wearing shorts baring thighs,” by Keertan Ayamany, Malay Mail, March 22, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Seven men who wore shorts exposing […]
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European Union makes a U-turn, says it’s time to deport more illegals

By: Christine Douglass-Williams — March 18th 2023 at 10:00
European Union makes a U-turn, says it’s time to deport more illegals
The irrational leaders of the EU fought long and hard to defend their reckless open-door immigration policies, even calling countries such as Hungary, which opposed those policies, “undemocratic.” Smears including “anti-immigrant,” “racist” and “Islamophobe” were also levied at anyone who protested against the invasion of mostly Muslim economic migrants who entered Europe illegally in droves. […]
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Israel: Palestinians destroy ancient ruins, pave road over First Temple relics, burial caves

By: Christine Douglass-Williams — March 16th 2023 at 07:00
Israel: Palestinians destroy ancient ruins, pave road over First Temple relics, burial caves
Back in December, when he visited an historic site dating back to the First Temple period, where pillars still stand and the remains of King Herod’s “giant theater from the Second Temple period” can be seen, MK Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, who is now Israel’s Heritage Minister, warned that Arabs were “erasing history” in ancient Samaria […]
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Pamela Geller, American Thinker: After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam

By: Pamela Geller — October 31st 2020 at 10:00

Background: In 2008, I was in Florida covering Rifqa Bary’s court hearings to return her to her devout family who promised to kill to her because the teen had left Islam and converted to Christianity.

I was waiting on my ride to the courthouse when I saw this ad on a bus:

Thus began the very first of my many bus ad campaigns. I responded with this ad and the greatest putsch against free speech commenced:

 

Check out my latest at The Thinker:

After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam

It took nearly twelve years, but we did it.  My organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), has just won an important victory for the freedom of speech.

Back in 2009, the Detroit area’s SMART transit refused to run our AFDI ads offering help to people who were in fear for their lives for wanting to leave Islam or having left it.  After an incredibly protracted court battle, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just stood up for the First Amendment and completely reversed the judgment banning our ads.  It’s a total victory for freedom: we won our free speech lawsuit in Detroit by a unanimous decision.

Our ad read: “Leaving Islam?  Fatwa on your head?  Is your family or community threatening you?  Got Questions?  Get Answers! RefugefromIslam.com.”  That’s all it said.  It offered a life-saver for those who were completely and utterly alone with no system of support or help.

Islamic law mandates death for those who leave Islam; even in the United States, those who leave the religion live in fear that a devout Muslim might decide to apply this penalty.  So we were offering help.  That is all.  But as Eugene Volokh explains at The Volokh Conspiracy, “Michigan’s Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) rejected this ad under two of its speech restrictions.  The first prohibits ‘political’ ads; the second prohibits ads that would hold up a group of people to ‘scorn or ridicule.'”

Our ad was not political and didn’t scorn or ridicule anyone.  It’s ridiculous to say saving lives is a political act, and so of course we won the initial case.  The first judge who ruled on this case, Judge Denise Page Hood, understood the law and so ruled in favor of our free speech rights.  She understood the First Amendment.  Therefore, although she was clearly not sympathetic to us, she had to rule for us.

But then SMART appealed.  SMART adamantly refused to run outreach ads that might have helped Muslims living in dangerous households and appealed to the notoriously leftist Sixth Circuit.  You might have thought the Muslim Brotherhood was running SMART.  It was astounding.  And consider the fact that Detroit was bankrupt around this same time.  Sharia adherence was still more important to the broken city’s failed leaders than were the freedom of speech and fiscal responsibility.

And so SMART continued to refuse our ads and appealed in the notoriously leftist Sixth Circuit.  The court called our religious ads political and created a new narrative out of whole cloth.  Our ads were never actually rejected on political grounds.  Individually and in her official capacity, Beth Gibbons, marketing program manager of SMART, said our ads were rejected because they were controversial — not because they were political.  It was always understood that these were religious ads.  Gibbons testified that she saw “nothing about [the advertisement] itself that was political[.] … I knew that [the fatwa advertisement] was of concern in that there is controversy on both sides of the issue on whether they should be posted.”  That was the position of SMART.  In fact, that was the agency’s official testimony.

We in turn appealed.  In 2013, I was deposed and harassed for six hours by a small, profane blowhard attorney — all billable hours to fight an ad created to help Muslim girls escape honor violence.  And the deposition was so hostile that you would think I had committed a heinous crime.  Apparently, blasphemy in America is.

The case dragged on and on.  But now, in American Freedom Defensive Initiative v. Suburban Mobility Auth. for Regional Transp. (6th Cir.), the court makes the correct ruling, noting that “the Free Speech Clause limits the government’s power to regulate speech on public property.  The government has little leeway to restrict speech in ‘public forums.'”  Accordingly, “SMART’s ban on ‘political’ ads is unreasonable for the same reason that a state’s ban on ‘political’ apparel at polling places is unreasonable: SMART offers no ‘sensible basis for distinguishing what may come in from what must stay out.’  Likewise, SMART’s ban on ads that engage in ‘scorn or ridicule’ is not viewpoint neutral for the same reason that a ban on trademarks that disparage people is not viewpoint neutral: For any group, ‘an applicant may [display] a positive or benign [ad] but not a derogatory one.'”  Consequently, the court declared: “We thus reverse the district court’s decision rejecting the First Amendment challenge to these two restrictions.”

This is all common-sensical and clear even to those with no legal training or experience, but it has taken an incredibly long time to get here.  The American Freedom Law Center, whose ace lawyers David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise fought long and hard to win this case, noted: “AFDI’s religious freedom advertisement was rejected even though SMART had no problem accepting and running an anti-religion ad sponsored by an atheist organization.  That approved ad stated, ‘Don’t Believe in God?  You are not alone.'”  However, now “the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously in favor of AFLC, finding that SMART’s rejection of the ad was unreasonable and [a] viewpoint based in violation of the First Amendment.  This is a final ruling.”

Bottom line: Everyone has the same right to a free life.  The Sixth Circuit agreed.

If you weren’t reading this, you would likely never know that it had happened at all.  No media covered it.  If we had lost, then you would have heard about it, because the media would have been popping open bottles of champagne and running huge pieces on how sharia restrictions on speech are altogether reasonable — as heads roll (literally).

Jessica Mokdad, an honor killing victim living in that area at the time, might have been saved.  We know that the ads have helped Muslims — they told us.  The ads save lives.  Contribute here.

Pamela Geller is the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The Geller Report, and author of the bestselling book FATWA: Hunted in America as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.  Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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BREITBART NEWS: Seattle Imposes Ad Ban to Annul Pamela Geller’s Free Speech Lawsuit Victory

By: Pamela Geller — April 17th 2019 at 14:00

Another city bans free speech. Chilling. Read this.

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Seattle Imposes Ad Ban to Annul Pamela Geller’s Free Speech Lawsuit Victory

Officials who oversee Seattle’s transit system moved to ban political, religious, and other ads from its facilities and public transportation vehicles soon after Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) prevailed in a freedom of speech lawsuit against the city, earning the right to run FBI’s Most Wanted terrorist posters, Breitbart News has learned.

By: Edwin Mora, Breitbart, April 16, 2019:

“People should realize that this is a struggle for the very foundation of any free society: the freedom of speech. If there is a group you can’t criticize, then that group can impose tyranny over you. If we lose this free speech battle, all our other freedoms are lost” Geller recently told Breitbart News via email.

She argued the advertisement ban sidestepped the September 2018 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling in AFDI’s favor, which allowed the group to advertise the Most Wanted terrorist list in Seattle.

However, the new restrictions, dubbed the “Geller ban” and instituted in December 2018 by the King County Department of Transportation’s Transit Division that oversees Seattle’s public transportation system, have ended up preventing AFDI from running the terrorist wanted ads, Geller pointed out, noting that her free speech lawsuit victory was bittersweet.

Before the appeal court’s ruling, judges had denied AFDI the right to place public service ads featuring images of the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists on Seattle’s public transportation system, due to a perceived disparagement of Islam.

The city’s rejection prompted AFDI to sue the King County Metro system for its suppression of free speech.

“We won the right to run the FBI wanted terrorist poster that Seattle prevailed upon the FBI to withdraw [ in 2013]. And as soon as we triumphed, Seattle transit imposed the infamous Geller ban, banning political, religious and cause-related ads in Seattle (following NY, Washington DC, Boston, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, etc),” Geller told Breitbart News in the email.

In a document outlining the transit agency’s advertising restrictions, King County officials noted that the policy bans advertising on transit facilities and vehicles that fall within the categories of political, religious, government (except for the county’s), and other forms of “speech.”

“They banned all political ads, as that was the only course of action they could possibly take in order to continue to avoid running my ads,” Geller said. “They’re so determined to continue whitewashing Islam and denying and obfuscating the roots of jihad terror that they are willing to lose immense amounts of revenue from all political advertising.”

Transit agency officials argued that their “viewpoint neutral” ban seeks to prohibit “advertisements that interfere with and divert resources from transit operations, that detract from transit purposes by creating substantial controversy, and/or that pose significant risks of harm, inconvenience, or annoyance to transit passengers, operators, and vehicles.”

“Such advertisements create an environment that is not conducive to achieving increased revenue for the benefit of the transit system or to preserving and enhancing the security, safety, comfort, and convenience of its operations,” the officials added.

Responding to the agency’s argument Geller noted, “I see ads that annoy me all the time. If that is the criterion [for the ban], whose annoyance counts, and whose doesn’t, and why?”

She told Breitbart News that King County’s decision to ban FBI wanted posters featuring some jihadis amounts to the “enforcement of Sharia blasphemy law in another American city.”

King County officials described the transit agency’s advertising ban as“restrictions” that “foster the maintenance of a professional advertising environment that maximizes advertising, revenue, and protects the interests of the captive audience that uses Metro’s transit services.”

In other words, the county’s transportation department believes that banning certain ads will allow the county to generate more revenue.

“The ban will, obviously, drastically curtail their ad revenues. To argue otherwise is plain deception” Geller noted.

Nevertheless, the county asserted that the advertising policy intends to fulfill the following goals:

Maximizing advertising revenue; maintaining a position of neutrality and preventing the appearance of favoritism or endorsement by the county; preventing the risk of imposing objectionable, inappropriate or harmful view on a captive audience; preserving the value of the advertising space; maximizing ridership and maintaining a safe environment for transit customers and other members of the public; avoiding claims of discrimination and maintaining a non-discriminatory environment for riders; preventing any harm or abuse that may result from running objectionable, inappropriate, or harmful advertisements; [and] reducing the diversion of resources from transit operations that is caused by objectionable, inappropriate or harmful advertisements.

Geller vowed to keep fighting for free speech all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary to ensure Seattle upholds the appeal court’s ruling.

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Pamela Geller, American Thinker: After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam

By: Pamela Geller — October 31st 2020 at 10:00

Background: In 2008, I was in Florida covering Rifqa Bary’s court hearings to return her to her devout family who promised to kill to her because the teen had left Islam and converted to Christianity.

I was waiting on my ride to the courthouse when I saw this ad on a bus:

Thus began the very first of my many bus ad campaigns. I responded with this ad and the greatest putsch against free speech commenced:

 

Check out my latest at The Thinker:

After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam

It took nearly twelve years, but we did it.  My organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), has just won an important victory for the freedom of speech.

Back in 2009, the Detroit area’s SMART transit refused to run our AFDI ads offering help to people who were in fear for their lives for wanting to leave Islam or having left it.  After an incredibly protracted court battle, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just stood up for the First Amendment and completely reversed the judgment banning our ads.  It’s a total victory for freedom: we won our free speech lawsuit in Detroit by a unanimous decision.

Our ad read: “Leaving Islam?  Fatwa on your head?  Is your family or community threatening you?  Got Questions?  Get Answers! RefugefromIslam.com.”  That’s all it said.  It offered a life-saver for those who were completely and utterly alone with no system of support or help.

Islamic law mandates death for those who leave Islam; even in the United States, those who leave the religion live in fear that a devout Muslim might decide to apply this penalty.  So we were offering help.  That is all.  But as Eugene Volokh explains at The Volokh Conspiracy, “Michigan’s Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) rejected this ad under two of its speech restrictions.  The first prohibits ‘political’ ads; the second prohibits ads that would hold up a group of people to ‘scorn or ridicule.'”

Our ad was not political and didn’t scorn or ridicule anyone.  It’s ridiculous to say saving lives is a political act, and so of course we won the initial case.  The first judge who ruled on this case, Judge Denise Page Hood, understood the law and so ruled in favor of our free speech rights.  She understood the First Amendment.  Therefore, although she was clearly not sympathetic to us, she had to rule for us.

But then SMART appealed.  SMART adamantly refused to run outreach ads that might have helped Muslims living in dangerous households and appealed to the notoriously leftist Sixth Circuit.  You might have thought the Muslim Brotherhood was running SMART.  It was astounding.  And consider the fact that Detroit was bankrupt around this same time.  Sharia adherence was still more important to the broken city’s failed leaders than were the freedom of speech and fiscal responsibility.

And so SMART continued to refuse our ads and appealed in the notoriously leftist Sixth Circuit.  The court called our religious ads political and created a new narrative out of whole cloth.  Our ads were never actually rejected on political grounds.  Individually and in her official capacity, Beth Gibbons, marketing program manager of SMART, said our ads were rejected because they were controversial — not because they were political.  It was always understood that these were religious ads.  Gibbons testified that she saw “nothing about [the advertisement] itself that was political[.] … I knew that [the fatwa advertisement] was of concern in that there is controversy on both sides of the issue on whether they should be posted.”  That was the position of SMART.  In fact, that was the agency’s official testimony.

We in turn appealed.  In 2013, I was deposed and harassed for six hours by a small, profane blowhard attorney — all billable hours to fight an ad created to help Muslim girls escape honor violence.  And the deposition was so hostile that you would think I had committed a heinous crime.  Apparently, blasphemy in America is.

The case dragged on and on.  But now, in American Freedom Defensive Initiative v. Suburban Mobility Auth. for Regional Transp. (6th Cir.), the court makes the correct ruling, noting that “the Free Speech Clause limits the government’s power to regulate speech on public property.  The government has little leeway to restrict speech in ‘public forums.'”  Accordingly, “SMART’s ban on ‘political’ ads is unreasonable for the same reason that a state’s ban on ‘political’ apparel at polling places is unreasonable: SMART offers no ‘sensible basis for distinguishing what may come in from what must stay out.’  Likewise, SMART’s ban on ads that engage in ‘scorn or ridicule’ is not viewpoint neutral for the same reason that a ban on trademarks that disparage people is not viewpoint neutral: For any group, ‘an applicant may [display] a positive or benign [ad] but not a derogatory one.'”  Consequently, the court declared: “We thus reverse the district court’s decision rejecting the First Amendment challenge to these two restrictions.”

This is all common-sensical and clear even to those with no legal training or experience, but it has taken an incredibly long time to get here.  The American Freedom Law Center, whose ace lawyers David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise fought long and hard to win this case, noted: “AFDI’s religious freedom advertisement was rejected even though SMART had no problem accepting and running an anti-religion ad sponsored by an atheist organization.  That approved ad stated, ‘Don’t Believe in God?  You are not alone.'”  However, now “the Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously in favor of AFLC, finding that SMART’s rejection of the ad was unreasonable and [a] viewpoint based in violation of the First Amendment.  This is a final ruling.”

Bottom line: Everyone has the same right to a free life.  The Sixth Circuit agreed.

If you weren’t reading this, you would likely never know that it had happened at all.  No media covered it.  If we had lost, then you would have heard about it, because the media would have been popping open bottles of champagne and running huge pieces on how sharia restrictions on speech are altogether reasonable — as heads roll (literally).

Jessica Mokdad, an honor killing victim living in that area at the time, might have been saved.  We know that the ads have helped Muslims — they told us.  The ads save lives.  Contribute here.

Pamela Geller is the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The Geller Report, and author of the bestselling book FATWA: Hunted in America as well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.  Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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BREITBART NEWS: Seattle Imposes Ad Ban to Annul Pamela Geller’s Free Speech Lawsuit Victory

By: Pamela Geller — April 17th 2019 at 14:00

Another city bans free speech. Chilling. Read this.

Related:

Seattle Imposes Ad Ban to Annul Pamela Geller’s Free Speech Lawsuit Victory

Officials who oversee Seattle’s transit system moved to ban political, religious, and other ads from its facilities and public transportation vehicles soon after Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) prevailed in a freedom of speech lawsuit against the city, earning the right to run FBI’s Most Wanted terrorist posters, Breitbart News has learned.

By: Edwin Mora, Breitbart, April 16, 2019:

“People should realize that this is a struggle for the very foundation of any free society: the freedom of speech. If there is a group you can’t criticize, then that group can impose tyranny over you. If we lose this free speech battle, all our other freedoms are lost” Geller recently told Breitbart News via email.

She argued the advertisement ban sidestepped the September 2018 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling in AFDI’s favor, which allowed the group to advertise the Most Wanted terrorist list in Seattle.

However, the new restrictions, dubbed the “Geller ban” and instituted in December 2018 by the King County Department of Transportation’s Transit Division that oversees Seattle’s public transportation system, have ended up preventing AFDI from running the terrorist wanted ads, Geller pointed out, noting that her free speech lawsuit victory was bittersweet.

Before the appeal court’s ruling, judges had denied AFDI the right to place public service ads featuring images of the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists on Seattle’s public transportation system, due to a perceived disparagement of Islam.

The city’s rejection prompted AFDI to sue the King County Metro system for its suppression of free speech.

“We won the right to run the FBI wanted terrorist poster that Seattle prevailed upon the FBI to withdraw [ in 2013]. And as soon as we triumphed, Seattle transit imposed the infamous Geller ban, banning political, religious and cause-related ads in Seattle (following NY, Washington DC, Boston, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, etc),” Geller told Breitbart News in the email.

In a document outlining the transit agency’s advertising restrictions, King County officials noted that the policy bans advertising on transit facilities and vehicles that fall within the categories of political, religious, government (except for the county’s), and other forms of “speech.”

“They banned all political ads, as that was the only course of action they could possibly take in order to continue to avoid running my ads,” Geller said. “They’re so determined to continue whitewashing Islam and denying and obfuscating the roots of jihad terror that they are willing to lose immense amounts of revenue from all political advertising.”

Transit agency officials argued that their “viewpoint neutral” ban seeks to prohibit “advertisements that interfere with and divert resources from transit operations, that detract from transit purposes by creating substantial controversy, and/or that pose significant risks of harm, inconvenience, or annoyance to transit passengers, operators, and vehicles.”

“Such advertisements create an environment that is not conducive to achieving increased revenue for the benefit of the transit system or to preserving and enhancing the security, safety, comfort, and convenience of its operations,” the officials added.

Responding to the agency’s argument Geller noted, “I see ads that annoy me all the time. If that is the criterion [for the ban], whose annoyance counts, and whose doesn’t, and why?”

She told Breitbart News that King County’s decision to ban FBI wanted posters featuring some jihadis amounts to the “enforcement of Sharia blasphemy law in another American city.”

King County officials described the transit agency’s advertising ban as“restrictions” that “foster the maintenance of a professional advertising environment that maximizes advertising, revenue, and protects the interests of the captive audience that uses Metro’s transit services.”

In other words, the county’s transportation department believes that banning certain ads will allow the county to generate more revenue.

“The ban will, obviously, drastically curtail their ad revenues. To argue otherwise is plain deception” Geller noted.

Nevertheless, the county asserted that the advertising policy intends to fulfill the following goals:

Maximizing advertising revenue; maintaining a position of neutrality and preventing the appearance of favoritism or endorsement by the county; preventing the risk of imposing objectionable, inappropriate or harmful view on a captive audience; preserving the value of the advertising space; maximizing ridership and maintaining a safe environment for transit customers and other members of the public; avoiding claims of discrimination and maintaining a non-discriminatory environment for riders; preventing any harm or abuse that may result from running objectionable, inappropriate, or harmful advertisements; [and] reducing the diversion of resources from transit operations that is caused by objectionable, inappropriate or harmful advertisements.

Geller vowed to keep fighting for free speech all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary to ensure Seattle upholds the appeal court’s ruling.

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