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April 22, 2021

White Bear Lake Student Wrongly Accused of Being Racist, Feels ‘Unsafe’

A sophomore girl at White Bear Lake High School was falsely accused of sending racist and threatening messages to a black classmate last week. A student at White Bear Lake High School received hateful and racist messages via Instagram earlier this month. White Bear Lake students held a walkout in...
Amazon workers
April 22, 2021

Commentary: Amazon’s Rejection of Unions in Alabama Is a Big Loss for Big Labor

April 22, 2021

Columbus Police Release More Footage and 911 Calls in Shooting Death of 16-year-Old

Police
April 22, 2021

Children’s Book Used in New York School Faces Backlash over Claims That Police Are Racist

April 22, 2021

Commentary: A Tale of Two California Recalls

Kyle Rittenhouse
April 22, 2021

Twitter Defends Not Censoring Hacked Content About Donors Who Gave to Kenosha Shooter’s Legal Defense

April 22, 2021

Biden to Increase Number of Immigrants Approved for Refugee, Visa Status

April 22, 2021

Stacey Abrams Spars with Republicans over Whether Georgia’s Elections Law Is Racist During Senate Hearing

Delta Air Lines
April 22, 2021

Corporate America Will Lobby for Progressive Policies — Unless It Costs Them Money

April 22, 2021

New Website Allows Parents, Teachers to Upload What They Consider Evidence of Radical Curriculum

April 22, 2021

Mark McCloskey, Lawyer Who Brandished His Rifle at Black Lives Matter Protesters, Floats Senate Bid

April 22, 2021

Florida Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Falsely Claims Columbus Shooting Victim Was Unarmed

Ami Horowitz
April 22, 2021

‘Maybe They Need to Feel the Pain:’ Minneapolis Protestor Suggests Killing All White People

Juror tag on dress shirt
April 21, 2021

‘Enemy of the People’: Minneapolis Star-Tribune Publishes Biographical Information of Derek Chauvin Trial Jurors

Person with mask on at a computer.
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Election Integrity and the Jim Crow Slur

Airplane in the sky
April 21, 2021

U.S. Issues ‘Do Not Travel’ Guidance to 80 Percent of Countries, Cites COVID-19

Riot at U.S. Capitol
April 21, 2021

Commentary: From ‘Insurrectionists’ to ‘Interruptionists’

Students for Life of America group
April 21, 2021

Pro-Life Student Group Exposes Christian Universities with Ties to Planned Parenthood

Joe Manchin
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Manchin Saves the Filibuster for Now, so House Democrats Call Supreme Court Packing ‘Infrastructure’

John Sullivan
April 21, 2021

American Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan Returning to Washington as Tensions Heighten

Person voting in poll booth
April 21, 2021

21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law


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Amazon workers
April 22, 2021

Commentary: Amazon’s Rejection of Unions in Alabama Is a Big Loss for Big Labor

Big labor suffered a significant loss in its attempt to unionize employees at Amazon’s warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama. Of the workers eligible to vote, an embarrassingly small 16% voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. It was the most recent in a series of high-profile losses...
April 22, 2021

Commentary: A Tale of Two California Recalls

Person with mask on at a computer.
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Election Integrity and the Jim Crow Slur

Riot at U.S. Capitol
April 21, 2021

Commentary: From ‘Insurrectionists’ to ‘Interruptionists’

Joe Manchin
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Manchin Saves the Filibuster for Now, so House Democrats Call Supreme Court Packing ‘Infrastructure’

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April 20, 2021

Commentary: Proposed Education Department Rule Would Prioritize Funding Critical Race Theory Grant Applications

April 20, 2021

Commentary: The Joe Biden Who Never Was

April 20, 2021

Commentary: Too Much Data, Too Little Wisdom

April 19, 2021

Commentary: Keep Nine to Keep the Independent Judiciary

Ben Sasse
April 19, 2021

Commentary: Biden Intelligence Community Breaches Authority to Target the Right

April 18, 2021

Commentary: The Washington Post Fact-Checker and Holding Biden Accountable

Protestors in D.C.
April 18, 2021

Commentary: Ballot Equality and Who Really Defends the Votes of Black Americans

People voting
April 17, 2021

Commentary: Why We Black Leaders Support Voter ID Laws


Sports & Lifestyle

Nashvillains
April 21, 2021

Music Spotlight: Nashvillains

NASHVILLE, Tennessee-  When I interviewed the Nashvillains I mentioned that they were like a modern country music supergroup. Turns out they agree.  Signed to Fate Entertainment, the newly formed country-rock-infused band is made up of veteran musicians Troy Johnson, Brett Boyett, and Scott Lindsey.
Exit 216
April 19, 2021

Music Spotlight: Exit 216

April 12, 2021

Music Spotlight: Jason Charles Miller

April 7, 2021

Music Spotlight: Tera Townsend

April 1, 2021

Song Suffragettes Celebrate Seventh Anniversary

March 30, 2021

Music Spotlight: Brett Kissel

March 23, 2021

Music Spotlight: Sam Hatmaker


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April 22, 2021

White Bear Lake Student Wrongly Accused of Being Racist, Feels ‘Unsafe’

A sophomore girl at White Bear Lake High School was falsely accused of sending racist and threatening messages to a black classmate last week. A student at White Bear Lake High School received hateful and racist messages via Instagram earlier...
Amazon workers
April 22, 2021

Commentary: Amazon’s Rejection of Unions in Alabama Is a Big Loss for Big Labor

Big labor suffered a significant loss in its attempt to unionize employees at Amazon’s warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama. Of the workers eligible to vote, an embarrassingly small 16% voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. It...
April 22, 2021

Columbus Police Release More Footage and 911 Calls in Shooting Death of 16-year-Old

Columbus Division of Police released body camera footage Tuesday night showing the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant that occurred earlier in the day.  Wednesday afternoon, police released additional body cam recordings and two 911 calls. Interim Chief of Police...
Police
April 22, 2021

Children’s Book Used in New York School Faces Backlash over Claims That Police Are Racist

A public school district in New York state is facing criticism after it promoted a children’s book that falsely claims that police target black people instead of White people, and that black people are more likely to be shot, as...
April 22, 2021

Commentary: A Tale of Two California Recalls

For better or worse, California often leads the nation's political discourse. Central to that discourse at the moment is the expected recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom; a recall of Los Angeles County's district attorney, meanwhile, is building steam. Each reveals...
Kyle Rittenhouse
April 22, 2021

Twitter Defends Not Censoring Hacked Content About Donors Who Gave to Kenosha Shooter’s Legal Defense

Twitter defended its decision allowing users to share articles that cite hacked information about people who donated to the 18-year-old accused of killing protesters in Wisconsin last summer. The content did not violate the company’s distribution of hack materials policy because it...
April 22, 2021

Biden to Increase Number of Immigrants Approved for Refugee, Visa Status

President Joe Biden’s border policy will include an increase in the number of people approved for refugee and visa status, his administration announced Tuesday. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly asked the Biden administration to answer questions about who is...
April 22, 2021

Stacey Abrams Spars with Republicans over Whether Georgia’s Elections Law Is Racist During Senate Hearing

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred with Stacey Abrams Tuesday during a hearing on Democrats’ voting rights bill and election reforms that Republicans have introduced in states across the country. The hearing consisted of testimony from officials on opposite sides of...
Delta Air Lines
April 22, 2021

Corporate America Will Lobby for Progressive Policies — Unless It Costs Them Money

Big businesses have been vocal in supporting various progressive political causes, but have consistently stopped short of policies that would cut into profits. U.S. corporations came out in droves to announce their opposition to recently-passed voting legislation in Georgia, have pulled their...
April 22, 2021

New Website Allows Parents, Teachers to Upload What They Consider Evidence of Radical Curriculum

A North Carolina education advocacy group has launched a website to help whistleblowers expose what they consider radical curriculum in K-12 schools, including lessons on critical race theory. The Schoolhouse Shock site was launched Monday by Education First Alliance and...
April 22, 2021

Mark McCloskey, Lawyer Who Brandished His Rifle at Black Lives Matter Protesters, Floats Senate Bid

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who brandished his assault rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters as they marched through his neighborhood, floated a bid for Missouri’s open Senate seat. “I can confirm that it’s a consideration, yes,” McCloskey told Politico Tuesday...
April 22, 2021

Florida Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Falsely Claims Columbus Shooting Victim Was Unarmed

Tallahassee-based civil rights attorney Ben Crump falsely claimed on Twitter yesterday the victim of the police-involved shooting in Columbus, OH was unarmed. As bodycam footage was released, it found the victim, a 16-year-old black female, Ma’Khia Bryant, was wielding a...
Ami Horowitz
April 22, 2021

‘Maybe They Need to Feel the Pain:’ Minneapolis Protestor Suggests Killing All White People

Reporter and filmmaker Ami Horowitz traveled to Minneapolis to interview residents about the trial of former Minneapolis Police officer, and killing of George Floyd. He released a two-minute compilation of interviews Tuesday night, after Chauvin's conviction for second and third...
Juror tag on dress shirt
April 21, 2021

‘Enemy of the People’: Minneapolis Star-Tribune Publishes Biographical Information of Derek Chauvin Trial Jurors

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is being blasted online for releasing biographical information of all twelve jurors plus two alternates in the Derek Chauvin trial in the killing of George Floyd. Without naming the jurors, reporters Paul Walsh and Hannah Sayle on Tuesday...
Person with mask on at a computer.
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Election Integrity and the Jim Crow Slur

Not too long ago, a good friend of mine took umbrage at a Facebook post that compared a proposed “vaccination passport” to the requirement that Jews in Nazi Germany carry papers identifying them as such. As a Jew, my friend...
Riot at U.S. Capitol
April 21, 2021

Commentary: From ‘Insurrectionists’ to ‘Interruptionists’

Well, this is a bummer for the sedition-baiting crowd. The Biden Justice Department last week announced its first plea deal related to the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill: Jon Ryan Schaffer pleaded guilty to two charges—obstruction of an official...
Airplane in the sky
April 21, 2021

U.S. Issues ‘Do Not Travel’ Guidance to 80 Percent of Countries, Cites COVID-19

The State Department is expanding the “Do Not Travel” guidelines for U.S. citizens to include nearly 80% of countries because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency announced Monday. The travel advisories will be updated to align with the Centers for...
Students for Life of America group
April 21, 2021

Pro-Life Student Group Exposes Christian Universities with Ties to Planned Parenthood

Students for Life of America, a pro-life organization that aims to “recruit, train, and mobilize the pro-life generation to abolish abortion,” recently released a list of Christian universities with ties to Planned Parenthood. The group announced in a press release that they investigated over...
Joe Manchin
April 21, 2021

Commentary: Manchin Saves the Filibuster for Now, so House Democrats Call Supreme Court Packing ‘Infrastructure’

On April 7, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) penned an oped for the Washington Post entitled, “I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster,” appearing to foreclose any possibility of President Joe Biden ramming through major changes to law on a...
John Sullivan
April 21, 2021

American Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan Returning to Washington as Tensions Heighten

United States Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said Tuesday that he was returning to Washington for “consultations” with top American officials as tensions increase between the two countries. The former deputy secretary of state and appointee of former President Donald...
Person voting in poll booth
April 21, 2021

21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law

Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws.  “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply...
Nashvillains
April 21, 2021

Music Spotlight: Nashvillains

NASHVILLE, Tennessee-  When I interviewed the Nashvillains I mentioned that they were like a modern country music supergroup. Turns out they agree.  Signed to Fate Entertainment, the newly formed country-rock-infused band is made up of veteran musicians Troy Johnson, Brett...
U.S. Supreme Court
April 21, 2021

Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Expanding the U.S. Supreme Court

Democrats enthralled their base and alarmed Republicans with the recent announcement of a new push to add four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the latest polling suggests the majority of Americans don’t favor expanding the highest court in...
Florida Senate
April 21, 2021

Bill Thwarting Big Tech Censorship Headed to Florida Senate Floor

A bill that would limit the ability of Big Tech platforms like Facebook and YouTube to ban political candidates passed the Senate Appropriations Committee Monday, and will head to the Senate floor. SB 7072, which according to its summary is...
Derek Chauvin
April 20, 2021

Jury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty on All Counts in the Death of George Floyd

Less than a year after the death of George Floyd in police custody, a jury found former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Anger from the tragic death in...
Job fair booth of Atlas Staffing
April 20, 2021

Some Minnesota Businesses Report Hiring Problems, Citing Enhanced Unemployment Benefits

With more relaxed restrictions and the promise of warmer months ahead, businesses are struggling to find employees to come back to work, even after raising wages and offering flexible hours. Some blame generous unemployment benefits. Atlas Staffing Inc has 241...
Close up of person writing
April 20, 2021

Commentary: Proposed Education Department Rule Would Prioritize Funding Critical Race Theory Grant Applications

The Biden Administration is wasting no time in working to promote highly controversial critical race theory and anti-racism concepts into curriculums nationwide. A proposed rule from the U.S. Education Department seeks to prioritize funding grant proposals that support diversity and...
NASA Helicopter
April 20, 2021

NASA Makes History with First Helicopter Flight on Another Planet

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made history Monday morning when it conducted the first ever powered and controlled flight on a different planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Ingenuity, a solar-powered helicopter, took flight on Mars for...
Susan Wojcicki
April 20, 2021

YouTube CEO Honored with ‘Free Expression’ Award as Big Tech Silences Conservatives

Despite its ongoing censorship and banning of prominent conservatives from its platform, the CEO of Google-owned YouTube collected an award for "free expression" last week.  The nonprofit Freedom Forum, which describes itself as "celebrating the world's champions of free expression,"...
Aerial photo of Carleton College
April 20, 2021

Minnesota College Forces Faculty to Attend Racially Segregated Anti-Racism Trainings

A private Minnesota college has mandated monthly anti-racism training sessions for all of its employees, with most sessions segregated by skin color. “All faculty/staff will need to either attend the live session or watch the recorded session each month,” Carleton...
minneapolis police department
April 20, 2021

Vandals Target Chauvin Defense Witness and Vandalize Wrong House

Far-left domestic terrorists attempted to intimidate one of the key witnesses in the defense of Derek Chauvin over the weekend, but instead ended up vandalizing the wrong house, according to ABC News. Barry Brodd, a former training officer with the Santa...
April 20, 2021

Commentary: The Joe Biden Who Never Was

These are the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive—and certainly the most dangerous. And its catalyst is the myth of ol’ Joe from Scranton who has unleashed furies and hatreds never quite seen...
U.S. Border Patrol
April 20, 2021

‘This is What Open Borders Agenda Looks Like,’ Trump’s ICE Chief Says

Tom Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said Monday that President Joe Biden sacrificed the U.S.’ safety at the southern border in order to win the 2020 election. “This is open borders agenda, Joe Biden...
Karen Fann
April 20, 2021

Arizona Senate on the Verge of Beginning Major Audit of Maricopa County Ballots

The Arizona Senate is poised to begin a major audit of over two million ballots cast in the 2020 election in the state's largest county, a process the state Senate president claims has been stymied by county officials and which...
April 20, 2021

Commentary: Too Much Data, Too Little Wisdom

Every day, we are bombarded with information. A police shooting under questionable circumstances. A tense encounter between people of different races. A flood of statistics on COVID-19 cases, mortality, and vaccine effectiveness.  We receive the data in the form of...
Women's soccer game
April 20, 2021

Biden Administration Won’t Define ‘Sex’ as Biological as Title IX Review Starts

The Biden administration has rejected a petition to define sex in biological terms as it reviews the Trump administration's Title IX policies on women's sports and sexual misconduct proceedings. The rejection came a day after the Department of Education announced...
Dennis Baxley
April 20, 2021

Proposed Florida Vote-By-Mail Restrictions Scaled Back, But Opponents Not Swayed

A key Senate panel Wednesday amended a controversial bill imposing a range of restrictions on the state’s vote-by-mail (VBM) laws but did not vote on the measure after an exhaustive debate. The Senate Rules Committee ran out of time before...
April 20, 2021

Attorneys Make Closing Arguments in Chauvin Trial, Case Heads to Jury

Attorneys for the state and for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of killing George Floyd during an arrest last may, made their closing arguments in Chauvin's murder trial Monday. The state characterized Floyd as a compassionate family man,...
Maxine Waters
April 19, 2021

Maxine Waters Shows up in Brooklyn Center, Tells Protesters to Get ‘More Confrontational’

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters made a brief appearance Saturday night outside a police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where crowds have gathered for seven consecutive nights to protest the shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright was killed last Sunday by former Brooklyn Center...
April 19, 2021

Commentary: Keep Nine to Keep the Independent Judiciary

Congressional Democrats have introduced legislation that would add four more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, boosting the number of justices on the bench from nine to 13, as Democrat congressional leaders are going all-in on packing the Supreme Court....
April 19, 2021

Fauci Admits Biden Administration is Flouting CDC Guidance in Border Facilities

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Thursday conceded in a tense exchange with Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise that the Biden administration is violating major Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coronavirus guidelines by packing countless illegal immigrants into...
Joe Biden walking with his administration, wearing masks
April 19, 2021

Biden’s Court Packing Committee Contains an Army of Professors Open to Altering Supreme Court

President Joe Biden unveiled a new commission to explore the possibility of packing the Supreme Court. Although the commission does contain some constitutional originalists, it is heavily staffed by legal professors with revisionist views on the nation’s top judicial body....
Edward Livingston
April 19, 2021

Medical Journal Forces Out Editor Who Questioned ‘Structural Racism,’ Professors Rejoice

A leading medical journal terminated an editor who questioned the existence of structural racism. His fellow medical professors expressed approval of the firing. The American Medical Association wrote in a statement that it was “deeply disturbed” and “angered” by a recent Journal...
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice
April 19, 2021

West Virginia Governor Will Not Veto Bill Banning Biological Males from Women’s Sports

The governor of West Virginia signaled that he will not veto a bill banning biological males from women’s sports. Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice discussed HB 3293 during a coronavirus briefing Wednesday saying that he would either “let it become law...
Ben Sasse
April 19, 2021

Commentary: Biden Intelligence Community Breaches Authority to Target the Right

The freshly reelected Republican senator from Nebraska had kind words this week for Joe Biden’s intelligence chiefs. “The American people are blessed to have an as serious as ours,” Senator Ben Sasse said during Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. He called...

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