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The Daily Caller News Foundation Kate Anderson on September 26, 2023 Almost half of parents turning to homeschooling today say they are concerned about their children being “influenced by liberal viewpoints,” according to a Washington Post and George Mason University poll released Tuesday. The number of American families that are homeschooling saw a significant spike following the COVID-19 pandemic, with one study finding that the number had risen by 30% during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Urban Institute. A new poll found that, when asked why they decided to homeschool, 46% of families replied that they were worried that “local public schools” are…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Frank Lasee on September 26, 2023 National Lobster Day is a good time to look at what Bidenomics is going to do to lobsters and the $400 million lobster industry. And it isn’t good. It isn’t good for electric users’ budgets either. Biden’s 30 GWs of offshore wind is catering to the left’s rush to “end fossil fuels” (which provide 80% of our energy) is wrongheaded. It is part of a costly, unnecessary, not well-thought-out transition to part-time, weather dependent, middle ages technology. Only a fool ends their primary energy or food source before…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on September 12, 2023 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning to tell House Republicans that there is enough evidence to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. McCarthy is expected to inform House Republicans in a private session on Thursday that the “logical next step” in the House GOP’s investigation into the Bidens is to bring an impeachment inquiry against the president, Punchbowl News first reported. In the meeting, Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio and Republican House…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on September 12, 2023 The U.S.-Mexico border is the deadliest land route for migrants worldwide, according to a United Nations International Organization Of Migration (IOM) report released Tuesday. There were 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants on the US-Mexico border in 2022, according to the report. That year also saw the highest level of illegal immigration across the southern border, when federal authorities recorded roughly 2.2 million encounters, according to the Congressional Research Service. “These alarming figures are a stark reminder of the need for decisive action by States,” Michele Klein Solomon,…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Nick Pope on August 30, 2023 A Danish offshore wind company with major projects in the U.S. has taken huge losses Wednesday after warning about its so-far unsuccessful effort to get more federal subsidies, according to Reuters. Orsted stated Tuesday that it anticipates that its three developments in U.S. waters may be $2.3 billion less valuable than anticipated, in part because the firm is having trouble receiving more tax credits from the Biden administration, according to Reuters. Other problems the firm’s projects face include supply chain backups and rising interest rates that make refinancing…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on August 30, 2023 Three illegal migrants from Mexico assaulted a Border Patrol agent along the northern border on Aug. 20, according to an Instagram post from Swanton sector Chief Robert Garcia. The three illegal migrants crossed the northern border from Canada illegally before assaulting the agent near Churubusco, New York, according to Garcia’s post. Border Patrol agents in the Swanton sector, which includes areas of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire have made more than 4,900 arrests of illegal migrants from 68 countries between October 2022 and July, amounting to more…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – By Jennie Taer on August 16, 202 https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1691972541257007194?s=20 The state of Maine has become a breeding ground for Chinese illegal marijuana grows worth billions of dollars, according to a federal memo obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. There are 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana grow operations in Maine worth an estimated $4.37 billion, according to the memo. “There are hundreds of these operations occurring throughout the state. It’s upsetting to those who live near these operations, and even those who are following Maine laws and procedures,” Penobscot County Sheriff Troy Morton told…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Brandon Poulter on August 14, 2023 Colleges and universities have started implementing questions about identity in admissions essays following the Supreme Court’s ban on race-based admissions, according to multiple admissions websites reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Essays from more than two dozen schools are asking questions about identity and “lived experience” and asking students to discuss how their life was shaped by those things, according to The New York Times. Last year these essays asked questions such as what students like to read and what volunteering students have done, but after the Supreme Court’s ruling…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on August 15, 2023 Republicans launched an organization Tuesday to advocate for continued financial support of Ukraine in the war against Russian aggression, according to a press release. GOP Strategist Sarah Longwell and commentator Bill Kristol will head Republicans for Ukraine, which unveiled its $2 million campaign to encourage party voters and politicians to stand with the nation, according to the press release. The organization will run digital ads of Republican voters’ testimony about why they believe the party should continue providing aid to Ukraine on cable, television and YouTube throughout the remainder of…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Kate Anderson on August 15, 2023 Texas is looking to regain millions of dollars in Medicaid payments from the abortion provider giant Planned Parenthood in a hearing that is set for Tuesday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is currently suspended due to accusations of corruption while in office, filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood in 2022 to obtain at least $10 million in Medicaid reimbursements for the previous four years after Texas kicked the organization off of its state program, according to The Associated Press. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ruled against the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 13, 2023 In July, California’s Senate Bill 596, which would make it a misdemeanor for “any parent, guardian or other person” to cause “substantial disorder” at any public or charter school board meeting, continued to move through the committee. The bill aims to criminalize parents and will scare them into silence, California parental rights advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Criminalizing contest and dissent in local school districts manufactures false accusations of disorderly conduct when concerned parents exercise their constitutional rights and speak up against woke indoctrination. This bill is…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on August 13, 2023 Even as southern border communities deal with an influx of thousands of migrants each day, Democrat-run cities and states have declared emergencies after a few hundred or thousand migrant arrivals, according to a review of their declarations. Democratic leaders in Denver, Massachusetts, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and the state of Illinois have all declared emergencies over hundreds to a few thousand migrants arriving to their cities and in their shelters in recent months. Meanwhile, illegal migrant encounters at the southern border have remained high, according to federal…

The Daily Caller News Foundation by Will Kessler on August 14, 2023 The Inflation Reduction Act did nothing to address the causes of inflation and was instead named as such due to the politics of the moment, according to economists who spoke to The Associated Press. Economists say that the $740 billion legislation, which was passed one year ago on Wednesday, does not deserve credit for bringing down inflation, and President Joe Biden has also come out to say that the legislation was not meant to address record-high inflation, according to the AP. Inflation reached 9.1% in June 2022 but has since come down to…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 2, 2023 The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Missouri school district Monday after administrators allegedly refused to let a male high school student use the girls’ bathroom. Ahead of the 2021-2022 school year, the assistant principal of Platte County High School allegedly advised a male student, referred to as R.F., who had begun to transition genders, that R.F. could no longer use the girls’ bathroom and could either use the boys’ restroom or the single gender-neutral restroom at the high school, according to the lawsuit. The ACLU is suing…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on August 2, 2023Donors made contributions to a dark money group associated with a super political action committee (PAC) supporting President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, according to The New York Times. Future Forward PAC told the NYT in mid July it raised $50 million in 2023, but its recent Federal Election Commission filing indicates it only raised $67,000 during the first half of the year, and ended the filing period with less than $118,000 cash on hand. Donors likely contributed to the nonprofit tied with the super PAC, Future Forward USA…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Katelynn Richardson on July 10, 2023 A federal judge denied the Biden administration’s attempt to pause an injunction that bars federal officials from communicating with social media companies for the purposes of censoring protected speech on Monday. The Biden administration appealed Western District of Louisiana Judge Terry A. Doughty’s July 4 injunction on Wednesday, also requesting an emergency order to pause the injunction while the appeal is pending on Thursday night. Doughty denied the administration’s emergency order Monday, finding that plaintiffs would likely succeed in proving the government colluded with social media companies “to engage in viewpoint-based suppression…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Philip Lenczycki on July 10, 2023 The Chinese military is training kindergarteners to handle firearms and fight like soldiers in boot camps across China this summer, according to dozens of school social media accounts reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The boot camps feature combat training for boys and girls with a wide variety of toy weapons including knives, grenades, rifles and shoulder-fired missiles, and require the children to adopt military behavior, such as saluting, the schools’ social media posts show. The rise in the militarization of China’s youth appears to follow a 2019 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee push for increased “National…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on July 7, 2023 The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Libs of TikTok , which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app removed it the same day due to its “hate speech” guidelines, a screenshot shared with the DCNF and posted to Twitter shows. Raichik told the DCNF that the removal was unsurprising because…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Erinn Broadus on July 5, 2023 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a migrant on the terrorist watchlist due to ineffective practices within the department, a new report found. On April 17, 2022, officials screened a migrant in Yuma, Arizona, and determined he was not a terrorist threat; additional screenings days later at Palm Springs International Airport indicated otherwise. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was only able to apprehend the migrant two weeks after the discovery due to internal complications with their removal operations branch, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Katelynn Richardson on July 5, 2023 The Biden administration appealed a preliminary injunction Wednesday issued to prevent federal officials from communicating with social media platforms to censor content containing protected speech. Western District of Louisiana Judge Terry A. Doughty issued the injunction Tuesday after finding plaintiffs in the free speech lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, had produced “evidence of a massive effort by Defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content.” The Biden administration appealed the injunction to the Fifth…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on July 5, 2023 Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri said that the COVID-19 pandemic was a “Trojan horse” for wider censorship efforts Wednesday after a federal judge issued an injunction against the Biden administration’s coordination with social media companies. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued an injunction Tuesday prohibiting Biden administration officials with multiple agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health and Human Services, from contacting social media companies to push for “the removal, deletion,…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on July 5, 2023 Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that certain driver’s licenses from five states would not be recognized in Florida because they were issued to illegal immigrants. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) published the list Wednesday, which notes that licenses issued to illegal immigrants from Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, Hawaii and Rhode Island, which are not considered valid for federal identification purposes, are not valid in Florida. DeSantis signed SB 1718, which prohibited the recognition of those licenses, on May 10. “ID cards issued for…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on July 6, 2023 Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt called on a top cybersecurity official to resign Wednesday following a preliminary injunction preventing government coordination with social media platforms to censor protected speech. Schmitt urged the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jennifer Easterly to step down in an interview with journalist Michael Shellenberger on Wednesday. A federal judge had issued an injunction Tuesday preventing the Biden administration from coordinating with social media companies to censor content after finding that officials likely violated the…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Will Kessler on June 23, 2023 Siemens Energy announced Thursday that it will be undergoing a technical review after it was found that up to 30% of its wind turbines could have faulty components, according to statements made by the company. Siemens Energy, an international energy company that seeks to “decarbonize global energy systems,” announced that it is withdrawing its profit guidance for the year after subsidiary Siemens Gamesa found that there was a “substantial increase in failure rates of wind turbine components.” The company believes that between 15% and 30% of its installed fleets are suffering from…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on June 26, 2023 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said Sunday that he will not use the term “ESG,” which stands for environment, social and governance, anymore, citing the term’s political connotation, Axios reported. “I’m ashamed of being part of this conversation,” Fink said in a discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday, according to Axios. ESG emphasizes green investing strategies to advance climate-focused efforts, such as net-zero emissions, according to a 2022 letter to CEOs by Fink. “I’m not going to use the word ESG because it’s been misused by the far left and the far…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Micaela Burrow on June 5, 2023 Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, regarded by historians and the U.S. intelligence community as one of the most dangerous spies of the Cold War, has died in prison at the age of 79, CBS News confirmed. Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison at the federal supermax in Colorado after pleading guilty in 2001 to charges related to selling classified material to the Soviet Union and later Russia, according to an inspector general’s report released after his sentencing. Prison wardens found Hanssen unresponsive and sought to restore him, Bureau of Prisons Director of Communications Kristie Breshears told CBS News…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on June 2, 2023 The Biden administration on Friday ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, according to multiple reports. The moratorium — which the Department of Interior initially began considering in November 2021 — is a long-sought goal of several local politicians, conservation groups and Native American tribes that want to preserve the centuries-old Pueblo ruins located there, although some tribes have opposed the ban for limiting future economic opportunities, according to E&E News. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, herself…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on June 4, 2023 The crisis at the southern border is overwhelming school systems in several metropolitan areas of the country, according to multiple reports. New York City, Miami-Dade County, Denver and Chicago school systems have all had to adapt to the influx of migrants, according to reports. Border Patrol recorded more than 632,000 encounters of migrant families and unaccompanied children in fiscal year 2022 at the southern border and more than 365,000 in the first seven months of fiscal year 2023, according to federal data. New York An estimated 16,000 migrant children have enrolled…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Laurel Duggan on June 5, 2023 “Conversion therapy,” a term widely understood to mean bans on clinical attempts to get patients to stop feeling same-sex attractions, has been redefined with the encouragement of transgender activists to include attempts to change a patient’s “gender identity.” Dozens of states have banned conversion therapy for minors under this new definition, leaving therapists concerned that they could be penalized if they don’t automatically affirm and encourage their underage patients’ transgender identities. “I hear from therapists all the time that simply will not work with minors, or will not work with…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on June 1, 2023 MDA National, a major medical indemnity insurance provider in Australia, will no longer cover private practitioners for claims related to the administration of cross-sex medical interventions to minors due to concerns about future lawsuits, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The closure of the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in the U.K. inspired the decision from MDA National, according to SMH; the National Health Service shut down GIDS after an independent review found the clinic was unsafe for children and that doctors were rushing them through cross-sex medical procedures with inadequate mental health treatment.…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on May 30, 2023 The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Labor (DOL) on Tuesday warned that potentially thousands of fraudsters who stole pandemic relief funds could “escape justice” unless Congress acts to extend the statute of limitations on pandemic-related financial crimes. The OIG faced an “unprecedented” surge in cases related to unemployment insurance (UI) fraud amid the government’s rapid rollout of COVID-19 relief, opening 200,000 such investigations since April 1, 2020 compared to the roughly 100 per year the agency usually opened, according to the report. Although charges…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on May 30, 2023 The nation’s largest teachers union is backing an LGBTQ group that recently came under scrutiny for encouraging educators to keep students’ gender transitions a secret, according to a Tuesday press release. The National Education Association (NEA) pledged its support to GLSEN, an organization focused on expanding LGBTQ rights in K-12 education, after the organization’s 10- year partnership with Target resurfaced following the retail corporation’s release of LGBTQ pride merchandise that includes “tuck-friendly” swimsuits, according to a Tuesday press release. The union called recent reports that GLSEN advises educators to hide gender transitions from their…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on May 21, 2023 The Biden administration’s upcoming rules requiring stricter energy efficiency standards for mobile homes will raise costs for low-income homebuyers while failing to meaningfully limit emissions, industry experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) rules — set to go into effect May 31, one year after they were finalized — update insulation and sealing requirements among other efficiency standards for mobile homes, formally known as manufactured homes, which the agency estimates could save the average consumer between $177 to $475 per year on…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on May 18, 2023 Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a bus of migrants to the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, making it the fourth destination of his effort to send transports to Democrat-run cities. Abbott sent his first bus of migrants to Washington, D.C. in April 2022, followed by New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia. Abbott has sent the transports amid record migrant encounters at the southern border, and, now, with the end of Title 42, a Trump-era expulsion order, on May 11. “Texas’ overwhelmed and overrun border communities should not have to shoulder the flood of illegal…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on May 19, 2023 Mexican authorities discovered two drug tunnels along the border with the U.S. in recent days, according to Border Report. The location of the tunnels was in Tijuana, which is just across the border from San Diego, California, according to Border Report. One of the tunnels was still under construction, but 45 feet from the U.S. border. Authorities found the incomplete tunnel after seeing a man “discarding a plastic bag before running into the house,” according to Border Report. The bag was later discovered to contain crystal meth and more of the…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on May 19, 2023 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis privately indicated on a Thursday phone call with donors that he’s the only GOP candidate who can win both the Republican primary and the general election, according to The New York Times. Ahead of his expected presidential announcement next week, DeSantis told donors and supporters that himself, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are the only “credible” candidates for the White House, according to the NYT. On the phone call, hosted by the DeSantis-aligned political action committee (PAC) Never Back Down, the governor insisted…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on May 12, 2023 Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas refused to say Friday whether the crisis on the border could have been prevented. “We cannot control the movement of people before they reach our border,” Mayorkas told “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos. “Our responsibility attaches once they are in our custody.” Mayorkas predicted during testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee at an April 18 hearing that there would be a surge of migrants after Title 42 expired. The Trump-era border policy expired Thursday at 11:59 p.m. Mayorkas has claimed that the border is not open on…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on May 12, 2023 Democrats and top White House officials are privately discussing their fears of President Joe Biden’s chances in a 2024 rematch with former President Donald Trump, yet another indication of the Biden team’s angst for reelection, according to Politico. Prominent Biden officials have privately disclosed their concerns about the president’s newly launched reelection campaign, which currently lacks a headquarters, adequate staff and a finance director, according to Politico. Donors are growing weary about the president’s fundraising ability, and recent polling indicates Biden’s popularity is plunging, including in a head-to-head matchup with Trump. “Democrats are bedwetters…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Arjun Singh on May 11, 2023 A key office under New York City Mayor Eric Adams sent an email to a select group of private property owners pleading for emergency space to house migrants coming to the city as a key Trump-era border policy is set to end, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. “We need your help!” begins the email, sent on May 9 to a private contractor by the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, which states that “New York City is currently experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis” and that it requires spaces…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Micaela Burrow on May 9, 2023 The Pentagon announced plans Tuesday to buy $1.2 billion in weapons as part of an ongoing program to build up Ukraine’s military over the long term while it continues to provide for immediate battlefield needs. The weapons, drawn from an authority called the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) allows the Department of Defense (DOD) to buy weapons and military equipment directly from defense companies and partners rather than drawing from existing U.S. stocks, according to a press release. Tuesday’s package includes air defense systems, ammunition and “support to enable Ukraine to…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on May 2, 2023 Democrat-led states including California and New York hemorrhaged residents to red states like Florida and Texas and subsequently lost billions of dollars in tax revenue in 2020, according to a Wirepoints analysis of IRS migration data. California lost 332,000 residents to outmigration, along with $29.1 billion in revenue, while New York lost 262,000 people and $24.5 billion, according to Wirepoints. The report used 2020 and 2019 tax returns to analyze movement between states from 2019 to 2020. Behind California and New York, Illinois lost 105,000 people and $10.9 billion, while Massachusetts…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on May 1, 2023 Federal regulators took ownership of the First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, marking the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. First Republic was the 14th largest commercial bank in the country, according to the Federal Reserve Board, and the third bank to fail in the past several months following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Banking giant JPMorgan Chase acquired the vast majority of the failed lender’s assets and all of its deposits from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese and Megan Brock on April 30, 2023 A representative of the Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) trained school faculty to advise them on how to support a kindergartner changing their gender, according to documents obtained through a public records request by the Daily Caller News Foundation. CHOP’s gender clinic has come under fire for providing children beginning at age eight with medical interventions such as puberty blockers. “I believe this is a great starting point for our education, not just as a school but, district wide,”…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on April 28, 2023 A former CIA chief of station said Friday he did not join dozens of other former intelligence officials in signing a letter regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop because “no evidence” that it was Russian disinformation was presented. “I remember I got the letter Oct. 18, 2020, and at first glance, it seemed natural to lay the blame at the Kremlin’s doorstep,” Dan Hoffman, who served in the CIA for 30 years, told Fox News host John Roberts. “Remember, Vladimir Putin is in the Kremlin and he’s well known for cloak-and-dagger…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on April 24, 2023 Former Fox News host Glenn Beck predicted Monday that the departure of Tucker Carlson would “kill” the 24-hour news network. “I think that’ll kill Fox, I really do,” Beck said. “I know so many people that still kinda like Fox, they watch other shows, but they’re like, Tucker is the only one I really trust. You lose Tucker Carlson, I think that really kills them.” “You’re getting rid of Tucker Carlson? Wow,” Beck added. “Letting him walk out the door even? Wow.” WATCH: https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1650563715517886464?s=20 Fox News announced Carlson’s…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on April 20, 2023 Medicaid expansion hasn’t helped the opioid crisis and could be “making it worse,” with 14 out of the 15 states with the highest overdose rates being expansion states, according to research exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Research from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) indicates that half of the states with the lowest overdose rates are non-expansion states, the states that used Medicaid the most more than doubled their overdose rates and states with the greatest use of expansion have higher rates of babies being…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on April 18, 2023 While discussing civil rights laws, a Democrat witness said it is harder to protect students if they leave the public school system and go to a private or religious institution, according to a Tuesday Education and Workforce Committee hearing. During a hearing on school choice, Republican Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici asked how students and families may be affected by private and religious schools, who may not be subjected to federal civil rights laws. Dr. Derek Black, a professor of law at the University of South Carolina and the Democrat witness at…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on April 19, 2023 Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest attack on Disney as being a “political STUNT,” the latest skirmish in the ongoing feud between the former president and the Florida governor. DeSantis — likely to be Trump’s strongest 2024 opponent based on polling data — announced legislation on Monday to nullify Disney’s last-minute agreements to curb the governor’s new state control board intended to oversee Disney’s special district. Trump characterized DeSantis’ feud with Disney as a failed “P.R. plan” ahead of a widely expected presidential announcement…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on April 18, 2023 Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said Tuesday it was “insanity” that the Biden family’s business dealings were not properly investigated. “I just left the Treasury to review over 100 suspicious activity reports on the Biden family. And I have to tell you, there are more Bidens involved than — than we knew previously,” Mace said in a video posted on Twitter. “And every time you overturn or look under a stone, there’s so much more you have to investigate, because it’s wild, the number of family members involved, and…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Alexa Schwerha on April 19, 2023 Protesters set off smoke bombs and fireworks and burned a cut-out of conservative commentator Michael Knowles outside of his debate at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening, The Pitt News reported. The university closed multiple buildings and sent an emergency notice warning of a “public safety emergency” where the protesters were located. “But the protestors who tried to shout down the event and set off fires clearly crossed the line. Free speech and open debate should be welcomed, not viciously condemned, at a university of all places—yes, even…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Reagan Reese on April 13, 2023 The University of Pennsylvania’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program is hosting a “radical playdate” for 5-through-9-year-olds on April 15 to explore social justice, according to the institution. Colorful Stories, an organization that aims to educate students on social justice through books, is partnering with the university to offer two child-care sessions on “skin color exploration” and “gender identity exploration,” according to the institution. The “radical playdate” aims to teach the children a “positive sense of self and a respectful understanding of others” in order to help them “succeed in a complex and diverse world.” “A teaching…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on April 13, 2023 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $177 million to environmental groups, including some who publicly supported the Biden administration’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the agency announced Thursday. The funding will be spread across 17 groups, which will each receive a minimum of $10 million to serve as Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (EJ TCTACs), to help “underserved and overburdened communities” access government funding to support environmental justice initiatives, the EPA reported in a press release. Groups named by the EPA include the National…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on April 13, 2023 The Biden administration is preparing to give individuals health care who arrived in the country illegally as children and are enrolled in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the White House said in a statement Thursday. The new program would mean eligible DACA recipients, who are also known as Dreamers, could get coverage under Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, the White House said in its statement. The Obama administration started the DACA program in 2012 to ensure illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children had opportunities. “President…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on March 29, 2023 Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear let a bill that allows parents to challenge sexually explicit school materials become law without his signature on Tuesday. Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Josh Calloway, lets parents file complaints over school materials that depict sexual acts “in an obscene manner” or are “patently offensive to prevailing standards.” The legislation passed the state Senate in February and then the state House on March 15 before Beshear allowed the bill to become law. “While this bill does not go as far…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Jennie Taer on March 28, 2023 Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Canada of wanting “to participate in Mexico’s invasion” of the U.S. via the northern border during a Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Tuesday. Greene expressed concern with Canada’s visa waivers for Mexican nationals traveling to their country. The northern border is currently seeing an uptick in illegal immigration, with Border Patrol agents in the Swanton sector in Vermont, New York and New Hampshire recently recording an 846% increase in apprehensions. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xTyxHi9z-k “I’d also like to point out that it’s extremely concerning and dangerous to the United States…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Trevor Schakohl on March 28, 2023 Attorney General Merrick Garland would not pledge Tuesday to launch a hate crime probe into the Monday mass shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school. Transgender shooter Audrey Hale, 28, killed three children and three adults at Covenant School before being killed by police, and the Nashville Metro Police Department reported discovering “writings” at Hale’s home that suggest a “calculated and planned” attack. Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said at a Tuesday Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that Hale “could have had collaborators,” asking Garland whether he planned on opening a hate crime investigation in the…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on March 23, 2023 Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed cutting routes for its DC Circulator bus program in half to save money after the city pledged to shift its buses to all electric or zero-emissions. The city is set to have every new bus be either electric or zero-emission by 2030, which is projected to make the entire fleet electric or zero-emission by 2045, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Bowser’s new budget proposal, which was unveiled Monday, would cut the city’s Circulator bus routes in half, she acknowledged in a Wednesday press conference;…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Laurel Duggan on March 22, 2023 Major American media outlets that receive funding from TikTok have emphasized the app’s popularity and expressed skepticism about the app posing a potential national security risk in their coverage of efforts to ban TikTok, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. TikTok bought ads in The New York Times and Washington Post, including a four-page NYT ad with a QR code linking readers to a website boasting of the company’s security investments, and sponsored a popular Axios newsletter, according to Ad Age. The purchases were part of a PR blitz from TikTok ahead of a Thursday…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on March 22, 2023 The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, the ninth in a series of hikes that started in March 2022. The hike brings Fed’s target rate to a range between 4.75% and 5% with the Fed maintaining its pace of slowed increase. Most economists expected a quarter-point interest-rate hike in an effort to bring inflation down, but the current banking calamities contributed to the possibility of a pause, according to Bloomberg. As of Wednesday morning, markets were estimating over 90% odds that the Fed…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Jason Cohen on March 17, 2023 SVB Financial Group, the parent company for California tech lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York Friday, the biggest filing of its kind since Washington Mutual Inc. in 2008. SVB, which was SVB Financial Group’s main business, was taken over by federal regulators after it collapsed due to a bank run last week, with the Federal Reserve intervening to insure depositors. The bank announced it was filing for bankruptcy Friday in a bid to preserve the value of its assets. “The Chapter 11 process will allow SVB Financial Group to…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Micaela Burrow on March 16, 2023 Department of Defense (DOD) medical providers in Europe are stepping up efforts to identify civilian providers of hormone therapy and other sex-change treatments for the children of U.S. military personnel stationed abroad, Stars and Stripes reported Wednesday. DOD has only one physician stationed on the continent who specializes in transgender treatments for minors, leading to a recent decision to discontinue medical treatment and counseling for new patients, Stars and Stripes reported, citing military health officials. Providers at U.S. military medical facilities in Europe have increased referrals to local health care facilities and are…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on March 15, 2023 Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacks “operational control” of the U.S.-Mexico border during a House Homeland Security Committee field hearing. Republican committee chair Mark Green asked Ortiz if DHS had “operational control” amid an influx of illegal migrants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered more than 2.3 million migrants in fiscal year 2022 and more than270,000 between October and January. “Does DHS have operational control of our entire border?” Green asked. To which Ortiz responded: “No, sir.” [RELATED: U.S. Border Patrol, Knox…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Jason Cohen on March 15, 2023 A women’s college in Massachusetts announced it will not revise its admission policy after students voted to allow all transgender and nonbinary applicants, according to a Wednesday statement. Wellesley College students approved the non-binding initiative on Tuesday after it was unanimously supported by the Wellesley College Government Seniors in February. Paula A. Johnson, college president, responded to the vote that there are no current plans to update the admission policy, which currently excludes biological women who identify as men. “For nearly 150 years, Wellesley’s mission has been to provide an excellent liberal…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Philip Lenczycki on March 15, 2023 Seven Republican Senators voted on Wednesday to confirm Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to India and former Los Angeles mayor, despite his ties to individuals belonging to alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front groups. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Steve Daines of Montana, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Todd Young of Indiana voted to confirm Garcetti following a delay of over 20 months arising from allegations that, while in office, he helped cover up sexual assaults committed by…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on March 13, 2023 Fox News host Tucker Carlson questioned what the federal government would get in return for “backstopping” deposits at failed banks like Silicon Valley Bank Monday. “What we know is the Biden administration is backstopping these deposits, okay. But that’s not the end of the story, in some ways it’s the beginning,” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said. “So here is where you pause and ask yourself a question that too few seem to be considering right now: They’re doing this, what are they going to…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on March 12, 2023 Adolescents with autism are overrepresented in the youth transgender population, and some medical professionals attribute this to autism spectrum traits such as obsessive thinking, vulnerability to body image issues and a sense of social rejection and isolation during adolescence. Dr. Susan Bradley, a Canadian psychiatrist who began working with gender dysphoric children in the 1970s, said she believed most of the children who sought gender transitions had high-functioning autism and were being exploited by the medical industry. “When somebody happens to mention that, you know, they’re trans or they…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Harold Hutchison on March 9, 2023 Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York sparred Thursday over allegations surrounding censorship by government agencies. “We’re here talking about Twitter. Twitter,” Goldman, a former counsel for the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, said during a hearing by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “And even with Twitter, you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. And when I say lawful, I mean non-criminal speech.” Thursday’s hearing featured testimony from journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi,…

Daily Caller News Foundation Mary Lou Masters on March 8, 2023 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is down 41 percentage points in New Hampshire, an important early primary state, while former President Donald Trump rails ahead for the 2024 GOP nomination, a new poll shows. DeSantis only received 17% of support when Republican primary voters were asked which candidate they preferred, and the former president topped the poll results with 58% of the votes, an Emerson College poll indicates. New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu garnered 7% of the votes, though the same poll shows he has a 64% approval rating among the state’s GOP…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on March 6, 2023 Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that footage of the Capitol riot “demolishes” claims by Democrats that an “insurrection” occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. “We are about to show you surveillance footage from inside the United States Capitol. The images you will see were recorded 26 months ago today on January 6th, 2021,” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and honorary board member of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said. “Until now, politicians have kept this tape hidden from the public. There is no legitimate justification for…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on March 6, 2023 Residents living in an area of the northern border known as the Swanton sector, which encompasses parts of New York and Vermont, are fed up over the local impacts of an influx in illegal migration that has resulted in property damage and interruptions to their normally quiet lives. The sector has seen a nearly 845% surge in illegal migration in the month of January, when Border Patrol agents encountered 367 migrants. “Everybody in this area is on edge,” Northern border resident Dan Cowan told the DCNF. “We don’t have…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Katelynn Richardson on March 6, 2023 The New York State Unified Court System (UCS) must rehire and provide back pay with interest to employees fired as a result of the system’s vaccine mandate, the state’s Public Employment Relations Board decided last week. Enforcement of the vaccine mandate must “cease and desist” and the system provide anyone who “lost accrued leave, compensation or employment” back pay with interest “at the maximum legal rate,” the New York Post reported. The decision will impact at least 25 fired court officers, New York State Court Officers Association president Dennis Quirk…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Alexa Schwerha on March 3, 2023 The Texas A&M University System announced Thursday it will no longer allow diversity statements to be considered when weighing applicants for hire, according to a news release. Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp ordered all 11 universities and its eight agencies to stop requiring applicants to submit statements that outline their commitment to practicing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in their work, according to the release. Sharp required leaders to review employment and admission practices and said he would implement a standardized practice that limits applicant materials to a cover…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on March 1, 2023 Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comment from a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesperson. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) moved one step closer Wednesday to potentially regulating gas stoves, weeks after its chair pledged not to ban the kitchen appliances. Commissioner Rich Trumka Jr. called for the public to submit research related to the harmful effects of gas stove emissions, particularly in connection to childhood asthma, and cost-benefit analyses of potential solutions to those problems, according to the announcement. Trumka ignited a controversy in January when he…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on March 1, 2023 A New York teacher allegedly made a 9-year-old girl use a male name and pronouns, leading the student becoming suicidal, according to a January lawsuit. The parents of a Terryville Road Elementary School fifth grader are suing Comsewogue School District and teacher Debra Rosenquist, who allegedly started addressing their child, a biological girl listed as “A.V.,” as “Leo” causing the 9-year-old child to suffer “humiliation,” “emotional pain” and “trauma.” The parents were notified that their daughter had said she was “confused about her gender” and drew a picture of a girl, writing,…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Nino Cambria on February 28, 2023 New Jersey environmental activist groups are fed up with the Biden administration refusing to even investigate potential links to offshore winds and recent whale deaths. Nonprofit environmental groups Save LBI, Clean Ocean Action and Protect Our Coast NJ, based in coastal towns, have spent months trying to get the administration to place a moratorium on offshore wind projects until the whale deaths are thoroughly investigated. “I want to emphasize the word, ‘could,’ the offshore wind turbines could be causing the whale deaths, let’s have an investigation and see if…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Bronson Winslow on February 27, 2023 Ford Motor Company’s recently released electric F-150 truck allegedly sources a majority of the aluminum used in its light-weight frame from Brazilian mines charged with pollution, land appropriation and the endangerment of thousands of people, according to a report by Bloomberg. Revealed last April, the F-150 Lightning EV has been coined as “the truck of the future,” but the aluminum needed to build the light-weight vehicle is mined by Norwegian company Hydro Alunorte, which is currently being sued by thousands of residents over toxic byproducts being released as a result of…

The Daily Caller News Foundation Mary Lou Masters on February 16, 2023 President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday on “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government,” which calls on agencies to ensure their use of artificial intelligence technologies promotes equity. The executive order requires federal agencies to create “Agency Equity Teams” who will be responsible for ensuring the equity mandate is followed. The mandate furthers the president’s commitment to promote equity and equality as it relates to gender identities, LGBTQIA+ groups, and climate change, according to the executive order. “It further directs agencies to ensure that their…

The DCNF Harold Hutchison on February 16, 2023 Former MSNBC and ESPN host Keith Olbermann called for blue states to wage “economic civil war” against red states in order to “starve” them into submitting to gun control. “We are owned by guns, and therefore there is only one way to stop the mass shootings. It is to suffocate the businesses that make billions of dollars in profits off guns, to destroy the gun lobby, the death lobby, and the Republican Party that defends those lobbies and those businesses,” Olbermann said in a video posted to Twitter. “And the only way to do that…

The DCNF – Jennie Taer on February 16, 2023 The number of American troops dying from fentanyl more than doubled between 2017 and 2021, according to Department of Defense (DOD) data released Wednesday. The data show that fentanyl was to blame for 54 overdose deaths in 2021, which account for 88% of drug deaths that year, according to DOD’s response to a bipartisan congressional inquiry. The number is a staggering increase from the 22 overdose deaths caused by fentanyl in 2017. “Addressing drug abuse and preventing overdose deaths in our force is a high priority for the Department of Defense,” Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel…

From DCNF – Bronson Winslow on February 16, 2023 Democratic lawmakers are seeking large amounts of funding for climate concerns in the five-year farm bill, according to The Washington Post. The bill, which would allocate billions of dollars to agriculture and food programs across the country, is being retrofitted to “tackle the climate crisis” by adding provisions that assist farmers with “green” practices, according to the Post. Alongside provisions aimed at tackling the “climate crisis,” a group of 80 Democratic members of the House launched the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition’s Climate and Agriculture Task Force today, which will ensure the fam bill has “robust” climate provisions. “We’ve already started…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on February 6, 2023 New York City is busing illegal immigrants to the U.S.-Canada border, the city’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, said early Monday. The city, in partnership with Catholic Charities, is transporting illegal immigrants to the cities of their choice, Adams told FOX 5’s Good Day New York. The Democratic mayor has been critical of Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to bus illegal immigrants to the Big Apple, an effort that has overwhelmed the city’s resources. “In an amazing partnership with Catholic Charities, they have a history of being there for those in need, those who are…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on January 19, 2023 Facebook made content moderation decisions based on communications with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) throughout 2021, according to documents published Thursday by Reason. Facebook staffers regularly sent claims to the CDC to be fact checked, but also asked whether the beliefs could “cause harm,” according to Reason. “Thanks so much again for you and team’s help in debunking a few COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation claims for us,” a Facebook staffer — whose identity was redacted by Reason —wrote to CDC health communications specialist Carol Crawford on…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Bronson Winslow on January 19, 2023 A recent rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) could classify millions of gun owners as felons should they fail to comply with the updated requirements, according to gun rights advocacy groups. The rule will force pistol brace owners, many disabled, to register their pistols as short barrel rifles (SBR) with the federal government or face up to 10 years in jail and a potential $10,000 fine. Should pistol brace owners decide to remove the brace from their firearm, they will need to destroy the attachment so…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on January 16, 2023 Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams said his city is at capacity and has “no room” for illegal migrants during a visit to El Paso, Texas, over the weekend. Adams stressed that there’s misinformation going around that New York City is where illegal migrants can obtain housing and jobs, during a news conference Sunday in the border city. The Big Apple mayor has previously complained about the surges of illegal migrants coming to New York City on transports sent by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Democratic El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on January 13, 2023 Republican Texas Sen. Bob Hall introduced legislation Thursday barring classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. The bill also requires schools to notify parents when a child receives in-school services for physical, emotional or mental health issues and bars school employees from withholding information from parents’ about a child identifying as transgender. It comes amid growing concerns about the inclusion of classroom lessons and school activities addressing sensitive topics related to gender and sexuality which have triggered other states to restrict such activities. Under the legislation, parents could bring…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on January 13, 2023 The New York Times on Wednesday confirmed another detail about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and President Joe Biden’s meetings with Hunter Biden’s business partners that were initially reported by the New York Post. Then-Vice President Joe Biden attended a 2015 charity dinner for the World Food Program USA with his son, Hunter Biden, and Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi, one of his son’s business associates, The New York Times confirmed. The confirmation echoes a revelation first reported by the New York Post in a bombshell story later censored by social…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jack McEvoy on January 13, 2023 The federal government has seized thousands of Chinese solar imports that were made using the slave labor of Uyghur Muslims, placing heavy constraints on the U.S. solar industry, according to Axios. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials impounded 2,600 Chinese imports that mostly consisted of solar panels worth $806 million from October 2022 to January 2023 because the deliveries were in violation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), Axios reported. The UFLPA, which was signed into law in December 2021 to stop the alleged exploitation of Uyghurs, has…

The Daily Caller News Foundation — Micaela Burrow on January 12, 2023 Top officers in the U.S. Navy warned that the Ukraine war is putting a strain on an already stretched industrial base Tuesday, complaining defense contractors continue to fall behind in keeping up with the Navy’s needs, according to media reports. Defense companies have struggled for years to keep pace with the Navy’s demands, citing pandemic-induced supply chain setbacks and a shortage of available labor, Navy Times reported. As the U.S. continues sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine, heightening the burden on weapons manufacturers, top Navy brass expressed worry that the fleet could fall dangerously low on needed assets if the…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Micaela Burrow on January 10, 2023 The Department of Defense (DOD) is now prioritizing space companies’ ability to defend rockets launching spy satellites into space against Chinese or Russian interference, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with upcoming Pentagon guidance. While DOD previously judged contract bids on the basis of resiliency and cost, growing tensions with two major powers and access to advanced satellite-destroying technology has spurred a change in the Pentagon’s strategy to protect sensitive military equipment, according to the WSJ. The new requirements will feature in the third phase of the Space Force’s…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on January 9, 2023 Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is opening an investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) after a prestigious high school within the district reportedly hid merit awards from its students, according to a Monday letter. The extension of the investigation comes after Miyares announced an investigation into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), following a report by Asra Nomani, a parental rights in education activist, that showed the school had been withholding the National Merit Scholarship commendation, an honor used for college applications and to obtain scholarships, from students who…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Kate Anderson on January 8, 2023 Conservative organizations told the Daily Caller News Foundation that they are hoping the newly elected GOP Congress will largely focus on federal oversight, the southern border and social issues during its term beginning in 2023. Some organizations hoped that Congress would push conservative legislation through while others appeared skeptical that any truly conservative legislation would pass through a Democratic Senate and White House. “We believe that the focus should almost singularly be investigations of the Biden administration and their allies outside of the government.” Thomas Jones, president and founder…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on January 1, 2023 The hosts on liberal media networks had lots of opinions during 2022, from comparing the fight for gun control to the abolition of slavery to accusing the Founders of “crimes against democracy.” The Daily Caller News Foundation has noted six times where their hot takes went above and beyond. 1. ‘Morning Joe’ Host Compares Passing Gun Control To Abolishing Slavery MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough compared efforts to pass gun control to Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to abolish slavery during “Morning Joe” on June 13, following a mass shooting at an Uvalde, Texas,…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on December 28, 2022 Though schools are open and are no longer relying on remote learning, many students are still chronically absent from class, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the 2021-2022 school year, states reported seeing an increase in the amount of students who were chronically absent, or missed at least 15 days of school in a year, since the 2018-2019 school year, according to the WSJ. States such as Connecticut, California and Michigan reported a near-doubling of their chronically absent rate from 2018-2019 to the 2021-2022 school year. “If we care about having a next…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jack McEvoy on December 27, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that his nation will ban crude oil and petroleum product exports to countries that impose a price cap on Russian crude. On Dec. 5, the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy democracies, including the U.S., Germany and the U.K., banned Western companies from insuring or shipping Russian oil unless it was sold under $60 a barrel to punish Russia for invading Ukraine while simultaneously bringing down global fuel prices. Putin signed a decree outlining retaliatory measures that will prevent Russian companies from selling oil to the…

Jack McEvoy – The Daily Caller News Foundation — on November 15, 2022 President Joe Biden is proposing a plan that would require fuel suppliers to maintain a minimum amount of diesel in their inventories this winter to stave off severe shortages and prevent extreme price hikes. However, it could create a demand surge and drive up already high prices, according to Bloomberg. The plan would force diesel vendors to take supplies off the market which could cause short-term diesel demand to soar and drive up prices in the Northeast, where fuel shortages are most severe, according to Bloomberg. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has…

Harold Hutchison – Daily Caller News Foundation – on November 9, 2022 Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Republican leadership in the House and Senate Wednesday, saying promoting them would “reward mediocrity” after “frustrating” midterm election results. “The people whose job was to win and did not win should go do something else now, we’re speaking specifically of the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate and of the RNC,” Carlson said. “It’s nothing personal, no doubt some of them are nice people, but they took hundreds of millions of dollars to paint the map red and they didn’t. Doesn’t…

Jack McEvoy – Daily Caller News Foundation – on November 3, 2022 The Biden administration’s policies reduced diesel production and caused stockpiles to fall to dangerously low levels, experts told the DCNF.“There’s an enormous tax and regulatory burden that the Biden administration has put on refining along with other industries,” Josh Young, chief investment officer and founder of energy investment firm Bison Interests, told the DCNF.“At the moment refining capacity cannot meet demand, even when we have enough oil,” Institute For Energy Research Senior Vice President Dan Kish told the DCNF.  The Biden administration has implemented policies that have hurt diesel…

Harold Hutchison – Daily Caller News Foundation – on October 31, 2022 NBC data analyst Steve Kornacki said Monday that Republicans had “massive advantages” over Democrats ahead of the looming midterms, citing an Oct. 31 Gallup poll. “This is new from Gallup. They ask folks the issues they considered most important. You see the economy tops abortion, gun policy and immigration. Then they ask folks who say these are the most important issues, how they intend to vote?” Kornacki said. “On all but one of these topics, Republicans have the advantage. On three of them: the economy, crime, immigration, Republicans have…