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21 Federal Agencies Promote ‘Pride Month’ With Taxpayer Dollars

June 20 2023

Happy Juneteenth from Washington, where the blessings of liberty increasingly are under attack. Slavery couldn’t survive long in a free nation, our Jarrett Stepman argues, and that question remains timely. And just to the north, he writes in another piece, Canadians let the government help kill more of them. In a special podcast, Virginia Allen finds out what one educator is doing to try to fulfill the promise of Junteenth. Plus: Victor Davis Hanson on top Democrats’ immunity from prosecution; Dennis Prager on America’s nuttiness crisis; and Amy Swearer on how free people defend themselves and others with guns. On this day in 1865, now called Juneteenth,  Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over and slavery is abolished in the U.S.

21 Federal Agencies Promote ‘Pride Month’ With Taxpayer Dollars

NEWS
By Gigi De La Torre

On Twitter, the Department of Transportation published a poster that contained a pride-themed, Black Lives Matter fist logo with the word “pride.”

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How James Comer Emerged as the De Facto Special Counsel Probing Biden Bribery Scandal

NEWS
By Fred Lucas

“People need to understand the amount of pressure on Chairman Comer,” says Oversight Committee member Rep. Gary Palmer. “A lesser man would wilt. I don’t think he will.”

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Newt Gingrich’s New Book Reveals Behind the Scenes of 1994’s ‘Republican Revolution’

ANALYSIS
By Virginia Allen

In his new book “March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution,” Newt Gingrich explains how the Contract With America fundamentally changed the Republican Party.

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California Creates Baby-Selling Market Through ‘In Vitro Fertilization for All’

COMMENTARY
By Emma Waters

The latest trend to come from leftist lawmakers and the reproductive industry alike should shock everyone with a conscience: selling babies.

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EXCLUSIVE: US Bishops Urged to Stop Trans Surgeries at Catholic Hospitals

NEWS
By Mary Margaret Olohan

A health sharing group urges the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to address reports that Catholic hospitals are performing hormonal and surgical sex-change operations on young people.

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House Republicans Expose Left’s DEI Agenda at State Department

COMMENTARY
By Mike Gonzalez

In what became an exchange that was both personal and went right to the crux of the matter, Rep. Brian Mast asked the State Department’s first chief of DEI: “Can you tell me—am I white?”

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‘The People’s Justice’: New Book Demolishes Left’s Caricature of Clarence Thomas

NEWS
By Amul Thapar

In 1998, Justice Clarence Thomas walked out of church after daily mass. He descended the steps of St. Joseph’s Church and began to walk to the Court, when a homeless man came running toward him.

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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Senate Candidate Makes Major Parental Rights Pledge After SPLC Attack

NEWS
By Tyler O’Neil

A Republican running for Virginia Senate responds to an attack on parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty by pledging to introduce a Parental Bill of Rights Act in the Legislature should she win.

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ICYMI: In Canada, the West’s Suicide Is Becoming Literal

COMMENTARY
By Jarrett Stepman

Who now controls who lives or dies? Increasingly in Canada, government agencies do.

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