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Women Pack Tenth Circuit Courtroom and Rally to Save Sisterhood:
Yesterday, Independent Women's Law Center led oral arguments before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, on behalf of six women who were robbed of the sisterhood that their sorority promised them. The case, Westenbroek et al v. Kappa Kappa Gamma , challenges that the forced admission of a male member violates the sorority's bylaws, which provide that "a new member shall be a woman."
At the court, the plaintiffs were welcomed by a large supportive crowd cheering them on. Present were sorority women from several National Panhellenic Conference organizations, including Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Chi Omega, Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, and Phi Mu, and women's advocacy groups from across the political aisle, including Women's Declaration International USA (WDI, USA) and Women's Liberation Front (WoLF). Following oral arguments, a "Save Sisterhood" press conference took placed before network cameras and reporters.
"EcoHealth's actions were often enabled by the incompetency of the NIH. It is this contempt and incompetence that necessitates both Congressional and Administrative action.
In a bold move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday accepted the recommendation of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to formally debar EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (EcoHealth).
The decision comes in the wake of a detailed report by the Select Subcommittee that highlighted multiple violations and questionable activities by EcoHealth. HHS will initiate official debarment proceedings and implement an immediate government-wide suspension of U.S. taxpayer funds to EcoHealth, affecting all active grants. The move aims to prevent EcoHealth and its president, Dr. Peter Daszak, from receiving any further U.S. funding. |
WASHINGTON – This evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7530 – The "D.C. Criminal Reform to Immediately Make Everyone Safer (D.C. CRIMES) Act" with a bipartisan vote of 225-181.
This legislation prohibits the Council of the District of Columbia from pursuing progressive, soft-on-crime policy and seeks to utilize Congressional authority in order to reduce the skyrocketing crime in our nation's capital.
H.R. 7530 is sponsored by Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) and is the congressman's fifteenth piece of legislation that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives during the 118th Congress.
"Our nation's capital is experiencing a historic crime wave as a result of progressive, soft-on-crime policy," said Congressman Donalds. "This man-made public safety crisis is unacceptable. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to oversee the District of Columbia and it is imperative that we act quickly to assert our control when local government fails to do its job. The American people deserve a safe capital city and I will not stand idly-by as it descends into chaos. I am proud to receive the bipartisan support of my colleagues and look forward to the Senate's consideration of this important proposal."
"Democrats' soft-on-crime policies have significantly changed policing across the country – and some of the worst consequences can been seen in our nation's capital," said Speaker Johnson. "Congress has a responsibility to act in the interest of the District of Columbia and Congressman Byron Donalds's DC CRIMES Act will address the persistent levels of violent crime in Washington, D.C."
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| The budget compromise includes raises of 3% each year for teachers, state employees and state-supported local employees. We're facing a major teacher shortage in Virginia, so I support doing anything to attract and retain good teachers. That said, where is the money in education going? Is it in fact going to teachers? It increases state funding of K-12 schools by more than $2 billion and provides more than $200 million to make higher education more affordable by curbing tuition increases. The approved budget boosts spending for Medicaid and rates paid to personal care attendants and expands services for Virginians with behavioral health disabilities. The deal provides almost $145 million for the Washington transit system, $100 million in toll relief for drivers in Hampton Roads and, contingent on additional revenue, $175 million for improvements to Interstate 81 in western Virginia. Why not get rid of the tolls in Hampton Roads? No wonder the people of Hampton need relief. You can't travel 10 miles before you have to pay a toll in Hampton. Does it surprise you that the city of Hampton is controlled by Democrats who voted in favor of the tolls? Sounds like a mismanagement issue to me. Maybe a call to Senators Louis Lucas and Maime Locke would be a good start. To support toll roads and then ask for relief is backwards to say the least. Finally, the legislature elected eight judges, including three from Hanover County, David Caddell Jr. and Robert Reibach, for eight year terms on the circuit court for the 15th Judicial District; and Lisa Sewell, for a six-year term on the juvenile and domestic relations court for the 15th District. While I appreciate a budget passed before a shutdown, we need to continually ask the question, how much did spending increase from last year and why? |
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Two Systems Of Justice
Sentences are now being handed down in the trials of pro-life activists who have been aggressively prosecuted and persecuted by the Biden Justice Department. Lauren Handy, the organizer of a non-violent demonstration at a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison.
Other pro-life activists involved in this demonstration have received sentences of 27 months.
Some of these activists are actually progressives who disagree with conservatives on everything except abortion. They see the right to life as a paramount civil rights issue.
We've often said there are two systems of justice, one for the right and one for the left. But it's actually a bit more finely tuned than that.
These are people of the left, and they are not being spared. It's one system of justice if you believe a certain set of values, and one system of justice if you don't.
If you believe in God, self-defense, and no indoctrination in schools, there's one system of justice for you. And if you are leftist but you don't agree on destroying a million babies a year, you've lost your left-wing privilege. You're lumped in with the "deplorables" and may be put in a cell with January 6th defendants.
In a couple of columns earlier this spring, I noted that the modern Democrat Party has willingly — gleefully, in fact — cast itself as the villain in this year's election cycle. Everything about the Democrats' actions sends up red...
The post Just How Sleazy Is the Democrat Party? Take a Look at Nevada. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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By Chris Johnson
A few weeks ago, pro-Palestine protestors stormed Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, eventually breaking in and barricading themselves inside overnight. Similar protests and action have taken place at universities around the country, with "encampments" of protestors filling quads and blocking sidewalks and university buildings and services.
With remarkably few exceptions, these besieged institutions have been hesitant to call in law enforcement to clear their publicly funded spaces of activists who are often heard calling for violence against Jews.
It's not just on college campuses that protestors are attempting to annoy society into submission, however. Last weekend still more protestors took the streets – the freeways, to be exact. In Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Orlando, and other cities anti-Israel protestors blocked traffic at vital traffic chokepoints in these already chaotic metropolises. The Chicago contingent said the location of their blockade was chosen specifically because it would wreak havoc for travelers bound for O'Hare International Airport. It's not that they had a problem with the airlines, it's that they wanted their actions to disrupt as many people's plans as severely as possible. The protestors in Orlando likewise blocked access to Disney. Of course, emergency vehicles like ambulances and firetrucks are inevitably waylaid in these instances as well.
While these protestors are sometimes arrested on charges like "disorderly conduct," they will doubtless, for the most part, be slapped on the wrists and released back on the streets, like leftist protesters always are.
There's a very simple reason for that, as Politico helpfully reports: Pro-Palestinian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden's biggest donors.
You won't find many Biden donors, however, among pro-life protestors, which perhaps has something to do with the stark contrast between their treatment and that of pro-Palestine protestors by federal law enforcement.
On May 14, several pro-life advocates who had previously been charged with violating the FACE Act by barricading themselves in an abortuary and restricting access to the murders planned for that day, received their sentence. Lauren Handy, unless her appeals change the sentence, will spend almost five years in prison.
Handy discovered the corpses of five developed babies in the trash outside the clinic. The infants' bodies showed signs of illegal late or partial birth abortion, or possibly even of their death outside of the womb. The "doctor" performing these abortions is on video saying he would leave a baby to die if it was born after an attempted abortion, which again is illegal. The babies were known as the D.C. Five and justice was demanded for them, not just by citizens, but by congressmen and senators as well.
The courts, however, have ruled that these bodies be destroyed, rather than investigated, and that Handy and her fellow protestors be sentenced to prison time.
John Hinshaw, a 69-year-old who protested with Handy, will spend almost two years in prison. He said this to the court room at his hearing: "My granddaughter was born at 32 weeks gestation. How is it that my granddaughter is a treasure, and the others are trash?"
Pray for Lauren Handy, John Hinshaw, and their fellow defendants as they continue to appeal for justice, but most of all, pray that the Lord would hasten justice for those little ones and end the practice of abortion in this country.
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Recently, in a victory for the people of Kentucky and sound trade policy, the Senate included my amendment to streamline the layover of goods at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3935).
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