(Headline USA) Joe Biden’s State Department announced it is imposing visa restrictions for Ugandans it accuses of “undermining the democratic process” in Uganda after the country passed an anti-sodomy law.
A statement from the State Department did not name any targeted individuals.
It said the U.S. will consider other possible actions “to promote accountability for Ugandan officials and other individuals responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic process in Uganda.”
The State Department claimed these individuals were “abusing human rights, including those of LGBTQI+ persons.”
Uganda’s new law, adopted last month, punishes homosexuality, including with the death penalty in some radical cases.
The legislation has been widely condemned by sodomite activists, but it has wide support in Uganda.
Homosexuality was already illegal in Uganda under a law criminalizing it because it is “against the order of nature.”
The punishment for that offense is life imprisonment.
Sodomy is criminalized in more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries.
Africans see it as behavior imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation.
(Headline USA) A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping part of an Indiana ban on genital and hormonal mutilation on minors from taking effect as scheduled.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb genital and hormonal mutilation.
The order from U.S. District Court Judge James Patrick Hanlon will allow the law’s prohibition on gender-bending surgeries to take effect. Hanlon’s order blocks provisions that would prohibit Indiana doctors from communicating with out-of-state doctors about genital and hormonal mutilation for their patients younger than 18.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit within hours after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the bill. The challenge, on behalf of four youths undergoing transgender treatments and an Indiana doctor who provides such care, argued the ban would violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection guarantees.
Indiana’s Legislature approved the ban after contentious hearings.
Hanlon, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote that he was blocking the law from taking effect because its opponents had demonstrated potential irreparable harm to those undergoing treatment and shown “some likelihood of success” in arguments that it was unconstitutional.
ACLU leaders hailed the ruling as a victory.
“We won’t rest until this unconstitutional law is struck down for good,” Ken Falk, the ACLU of Indiana’s legal director, said in a statement.
At least 20 GOP-led states have now enacted laws restricting or banning such genital and hormonal mutilation for minors. Federal judges have also blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas.
Republican state Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office said in a statement it was disappointed in the decision but that “we will continue to fight for the children.” The statement said the ruling “recognizes that the State has shown there are good reasons for regulating gender transition procedures for minors.”
The office didn’t say whether it would attempt to appeal the injunction before July 1.
A top attorney for the state told Hanlon during a court hearing on Wednesday that risks from gender-affirming treatments during puberty such as future fertility, bone strength, brain development and possible reversibility had not been adequately studied by scientists.
Such factors make it within the Legislature’s authority to decide “we don’t want our children to be part of this grand experiment,” Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher said.
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) President Joe Biden continued his string of embarrassing gaffes and disturbing breaks with reality this week, starting when he was publicly rebuffed trying to cop a lecherous squeeze of a famous actress and ending with a bewildering outburst that left viewers stunned and alarmed.
Wrapping up an already-jumbled speech Friday at the National Safer Communities Summit in West Hartford, Connecticut, Biden babbled about an incoming storm with a bizarre reference to his old favorite “dog-faced, lying, pony-soldier” before abruptly proclaiming, “All right. God Save the Queen, man,” and stumbled confusedly around stage until being hustled off by his handlers.
The delusional shout-out to Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September, left the audience visibly confused, political pundits alarmed and social media aflame.
“Joe Biden is clearly out of his mind and barely seems to know what he is saying, but a strikingly ironic remark by the president in light of his long history of hatred towards Britain,” tweeted Nile Gardiner, a former aide to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Biden’s own comms team was reportedly caught off guard and left to clean up the latest mess dropped on stage by their aged boss.
“Several of you have asked me why he might have said that,” wrote the lead press pool reporter about his interaction with Biden’s media team. “I have no idea. Other poolers likewise have no idea.”
The strange remark echoed Biden’s prior public engagement with dead people, when he searched a crowd for the late Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., at a rally, and his rambling exit Friday left many observers alarmed over the president’s increasingly obvious cognitive decline.
“I have seen countless – and I mean countless – drunk people say something totally obscure like ‘God save the Queen’ and then jaunt around like a Joe Biden just did in an effort to play it off as if they were sober. He’s truly incapacitated,” tweeted political strategist Evan Berryhill.
“Will anyone Invoke 25th amendment?” asked Daily Signal investigative columnist Roman Jankowski, while popular political podcaster Tim Pool diagnosed, “ok he’s gone. His brain is jelly.”
Biden’s royal slip with reality came only days after he raised concerns about his cognitive decline with ramblings about building an oceanic railroad of preposterous proportions.
“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,” Biden blustered at Wednesday’s League of Conservation Voters gathering. “We have plans to build in Angola, one of the largest solar plants in the world. I could go on, but I’m not. I’m going off script. I’m going to get in trouble.”
Biden has plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean guys…
“When the president of the United States announces an 8,000+-mile railroad spanning a miles-deep ocean — something that is not now nor has ever been under consideration — Americans have every reason to be concerned,” tweeted the RNC.
Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley’s press secretary, Abigail Marone, offered a practical prescription, tweeting, “Put Grandpa to bed.”
NOT TONIGHT, JOE! Biden Goes for the Grope But Eva Longoria’s Not Havin’ It
It’s Thursday another day that ends in “day.” You know what that means more likely than not, Joe Biden is going grope a woman or young child, boy or girl.
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) In an effort to divide the nation that he pledged to unite, President Joe Biden routinely decries “MAGA extremists in the Republican Party.”
A March 27 White House fact sheet excoriated “Extreme MAGA Congressional Republicans.”
Joe Biden’s regime-media bodyguards parrot this sentiment.
MSNBC warned about House Speaker “Kevin McCarthy’s GOP extremism problem.”
Clean Technica reported last week: “Republican Extremism Could Be Major Threat To Home Insurance.”
Scary!
If Biden and his pals in America’s newsrooms really want to foil extremism, they should direct their heat at congressional Democrats.
A new group called the Institute for Legislative Analysis scrutinized 38,655 votes among all members of the 117th Congress.
ILA examined roll-call votes from 2022: 43 in the Senate, 79 in the House. These covered fiscal policy, energy, healthcare, national security, and more. This yielded an overall Limited Government Index, with 0% most liberal and 100% most conservative.
These hard data confirm that bicameral Democrats vote in near unison and much closer to the extreme Left than does the GOP on the Right. Democrats wiggle in a narrow band. Republicans waltz beneath a wide ideological rainbow.
I asked ILA to divide these parliamentary scores into five segments: The Left quintile goes from 0 to 20. Center Left: 20-40. Center: 40-60. Center Right: 60-80. Right: 80-100.
Among 47 Senate Democrats, 46 landed in the Left quintile. Only one voted Center Left.
Republicans, however, held much more ground: Three GOP senators scored Center Left. Center: 10. Center Right: 15. Right: 21.
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Of the 218 House Democrats, 217 voted Left. Just one voted Center Left.
House Republicans celebrated diversity: Five rated Center Left. Center: 16. Center Right: 96. Right: 91.
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The average Senate Republican scored a Center Right 72—28 points from the “Right edge.”
The typical Senate Democrat’s 5 rating nearly rolled him off the Left cliff.
The average House Democrat earned a 5. Same plight.
The standard House Republican secured a 77, a tad Right of her Senate counterpart, but far less likely to tumble over a philosophical precipice than would an everyday House Democrat.
On issues, senators disagreed most fervently on education, with Republicans averaging 100 and Democrats 0. They converged on workforce and labor matters, with Republicans averaging a Centrist 55 and Democrats a Center Left 31.56.
House members split farthest on free speech and elections. Republicans averaged 100; Democrats 2.25. (ACU’s findings mirrored ILA’s.) On regulations, they differed least: Republicans 70.74; Democrats 10.15.
Maine’s Susan Collins is the Senate’s most liberal Republican, with a Center Left 30.23. West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, with his Center Left 23.81, is the most conservative and only Senate Democrat outside the Left quintile.
Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick is the most left-wing Republican, at 24.05. Maine’s Jared Golden is the most right-wing Democrat. His 20.25 makes him the only House Democrat beyond the Left column, and by an eyelash—0.25%. Among Democrats, Center Left is conservative.
“Democrats simply vote in lockstep, and Republicans are far less uniform,” says ILA President Fred McGrath. “Our analytics reveal the GOP’s spectrum of beliefs.”
McGrath and his team previously compiled the American Conservative Union’s state-level and congressional scorecards.
For their part, Republican voters might ponder these statistics and wonder why they support legislators who stray so far from the GOP’s core-Right ideas. Or they could congratulate themselves on electing a congressional party with minds as open as the Great Plains.
Democrat voters might ask themselves why they back lawmakers who are so far from America’s founding principles of individual freedom, limited government and free enterprise. Or they could do cartwheels over Democrats’ dogged loyalty to their toxic ideas.
Americans should ask Biden and the regime media why they keep lying about “Centrist Democrats” in Congress who statistically do not exist—even as alleged “far-Right Republicans” vote from Center Left to Right.
The ILA’s evidence proves that the U.S. Capitol harbors only one extremist group: Congressional Democrats.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Donald Trump delivered a scorching response to a partisan ad from The Lincoln Project that targeted his federal indictments led by the Biden administration’s DOJ.
Taking to his Truth Social platform, Trump did not mince words as he labeled the founders of the infamous Lincoln Project as “Perverts and Misfits.”
Trump’s fiery words ignited a storm of controversy, triggering The Lincoln Project to issue a defensive video statement. Their attempt to ridicule Trump quickly backfired as the former president wasted no time showcasing the group’s own scandals.
“The Perverts and Misfits of the Lincoln Project have (barely!) gotten together again after their disgusting scandal, and pieced together some ads,” Trump declared on Truth Social.
Trump added, “They are running on fumes. Were they ever prosecuted for their crimes? Are their donors under investigation? Check it out!”
Trump’s scathing critique prompted Rick Wilson, one of the founders of The Lincoln Project, to issue a gasping response. “The Espionage Act is the one I’m hearing that really made you angry. I’m sorry, we put you on the same category as terrible spies in American history because you violated the law,” Wilson said in a two-minute-long whine.
Wilson, who did not clarify the accusations brought against him by Trump, came under fire after his colleague John Weaver, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, was accused of sexual harassment by several young them.
Shortly after the public exposure of the scandal and Trump’s departure from the White House, The Lincoln Project found itself grappling with low funds and a struggle for relevancy amid the scandal-ridden administration of Joe Biden.
Several Trump supporters took to Twitter to share Trump’s response to the notoriously anti-conservative group, with one user saying, “Trump is coming in hot against the Lincoln Project.” A second user said, “Lincoln Project next to be broken by Trump. He knows something.”
In the days after the unprecedented indictment, Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign raised a whopping $7 million, in addition to $10 million raised after the Soros-funded Manhattan DA’s hit job.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a shocking incident that has left residents in disbelief and horror, three refugees residing in New York allegedly killed and devoured a cherished swan, which had become a beloved symbol of the town.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, law enforcement officials in Manlius, New York, had reported the disappearance of the popular swan, affectionately nicknamed “Faye,” and her four cygnets from a local pond last Monday. This led concerned residents to launch their own investigations into the fate of the animals.
Several tips eventually led to the apprehension of 18-year-old Eman Hussan and two minors, aged 16 and 17, by the Manlius police. The alleged perpetrators now face charges of felony grand larceny and criminal mischief.
Faye, who had become a fixture in the lake, was brutally abducted by the three refugees. Law enforcement authorities revealed that the perpetrators succeeded in capturing Faye because she was nesting and unable to fight back. Faye’s baby cygnets who were subjected to this savage act were fortunately recovered by the police, as shared by Manlius Police Sgt. Ken Hatter.
“I just don’t know how if you were from the area you wouldn’t see the fences or the ‘no fishing’ signage,” a disturbed Hatter told the Free Beacon.
“The Village of Manlius is one of the only entities in New York that has a permit to have them housed, maintained, owned, and transport, and they cannot be removed from their location legally,” Hatter told News 3, which also reported that hunting swans is prohibited in New York.
Unfortunately, Faye’s harrowing abduction and subsequent demise do not appear to be isolated incidents. Two alleged illegal aliens in Nebraska recently killed a bald eagle with the intention of consuming it.
“This is not ending. We will continue to have swans,” declared Manlius Mayor Paul Whorrall said during a press conference held shortly after the swans were reported missing. “We’ll let the four cygnets grow up and at that point, we are hoping that two of those cygnets will mate and we will be back to the way it used to be.”
Hassan and the two minors were released to their parents but could potentially face deportation if found guilty. A “Justice for Faye” petition has garnered over 10,000 signatures, demanding the highest penalties for the alleged perpetrators.
“This was a heinous act by kids who don’t have or never have had discipline,” one signatory wrote, according to the Free Beacon. “Something has got to be done or this will continue to play out in our society.”
A second resident added, “These inhumane degenerates need to face real consequences.”
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In scathing verbal assaults from multiple fronts, former President Barack Obama has come under intense fire from Republican leaders and the conservative base after delivering a racist critique of GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
“There may come a time where there’s somebody in the Republican Party that is more serious about actually addressing some of the deep inequality that still exists in our society, that tracks race and is a consequence of our racial history. And if that happens, I think that would be fantastic,” Obama claimed on Thursday in a podcast interview with David Axelrod.
Obama’s heated remarks, accusing both Haley and Scott of falsely downplaying America’s racial issues, have sparked an inferno of outrage among Republicans.
Haley, a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 and former U.N. ambassador, launched a scorching counterattack, accusing Obama of setting minorities back by promoting a victimhood mentality.
“Barack Obama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work & personal responsibility matter,” Haley said on Friday via Twitter.
Haley declared that Americans value the ethics of hard work and personal responsibility, asserting, “My parents didn’t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my success.”
Haley’s spokesperson, Ken Farsano, echoed his boss’s remarks, accusing Obama of targeting Haley due to his fear of her being the Democrats’ worst nightmare in a general election.
.@BarackObama set minorities back by singling them out as victims instead of empowering them. In America, hard work & personal responsibility matter. My parents didn’t raise me to think that I would forever be a victim. They raised me to know that I was responsible for my…
Adding fuel to the fire, Fox News contributor Guy Benson condemned Obama’s criticism as “classic” and “gross,” attributing it to the former president’s disdain for Haley and Scott’s conservative policies.
Benson’s harsh rebuke encapsulated the sentiment among Obama’s detractors, who perceived his critique as nothing more than a calculated attempt to undermine conservative candidates.
“I think Barack Obama thinks we’ll be forever chained to the racism of our past. Tim Scott really thinks we’re a good country that can become a great country,” Trey Gowdy told Fox News. “If you like contrast, that’s a pretty stark contrast for people.”
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A longstanding Democrat Party donor who contributed to Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid was arrested Tuesday at his home for having sex with a dog in a public forest. The Hillary fan, Themis Matsoukas, was also a former Penn State University professor.
The political donations of 64-year-old Matsoukas indicated that he’s been donating to Democrats for a very long time. In 2004, he gave $500 to John Kerry for President — the very first time he gave his money to a politician. In 2016, he donated $50 to Hillary [Clinton] for America. Additionally, between August 2019 and February 2020, he donated $331 to [Elizabeth] Warren for President.
The former professor was also regularly donating his money to the left-wing PAC ActBlue, giving the political organization more than $1,000 between 2010 and 2020. The political money funnel ActBlue supports Democrat candidates, leftist organizations and radical activist non-profits.
According to the Post Millennial, Matsoukas was arrested and charged with open lewdness, indecent exposure, sexual intercourse with an animal, animal cruelty and disorderly conduct after he was spotted on trail cams naked with his collie in Rothrock State Forest.
After the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources rangers captured a man engaging in lewd behavior with a dog near a park restroom, they opened their investigation in April.
Matsoukas was identified in May after returning to the park, when his Subaru matched a vehicle spotted in the previous footage.
“I’m done, I’m dead. You don’t understand. I do it to blow off steam,” he told the investigators while they were searching his home.
He then asked them to shoot him by saying that he “needs” to die.
Before Penn State University announced he had been “relieved of his responsibilities and is on leave,” Matsoukas was a chemical engineering professor for 30 years at the university.
Matsoukas’s hearing is scheduled for July 19 of this year.
(Headline USA) The Biden administration is reportedly withholding the release of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s flight records that document his use of a taxpayer-funded private jet, according to a government watchdog.
Buttigieg has been under investigation by the Transportation Department inspector general for allegedly misusing government jets. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed last year that Buttigieg has used a private jet at least 18 times since being sworn in.
However, the FAA is refusing to provide additional details of Buttigieg’s trips, prompting Americans for Public Trust to file a lawsuit against the agency this week.
According to the lawsuit, the FAA has improperly delayed the release of Buttigieg’s flight records on three separate Freedom of Information Act requests. The first, filed in November, requested information detailing all flight logs and passenger manifests for all three of the private jets under the FAA’s control.
The second, filed in January, sought records for every flight taken by a White House official, executive branch official, or member of Congress. The last FOIA request, filed just days after the second, asked the FAA to include information about any other jets used by executive officials.
The FAA responded to the requests by setting multiple deadlines for when it would turn over the records, but each time failed to actually turn over the records.
“The FAA has not communicated with APT concerning whether the FAA will fulfill its FOIA requests since missing two self-imposed extended deadlines of May 1 and May 18, 2023,” the lawsuit stated. “Nor has the FAA provided any indication as to when APT can expect its requests to be processed.”
APT said the “only documents” the FAA has produced were documents “previously produced in response to a FOIA request from a different party, and the documents produced are not fully responsive to all three of APT’s requests.”
(By Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Former President Donald Trump made a fresh wave of criticisms Friday of the 37-count indictment filed against him and said the indictment should be withdrawn.
“They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom,” Trump said in a video message posted to his social media platform Friday afternoon. “They are not coming after me, they’re coming after you. I just happen to be standing in their way.”
Trump also said the indictment should be immediately withdrawn and he should get an apology.
Trump also criticized former United States Attorney General William Barr, who has spoken out about the indictment in the classified documents. Trump said Barr was being paid to say bad things about him and said that Barr was angry because Trump fired him.
“Virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought,” Trump said. “Except Bill Barr, a disgruntled former employee and very weak person.”
Also on Friday, Trump’s attorneys in the documents case filed notice that they had gotten in touch with Litigation Security Group of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The former president’s attorneys had not asked the judge to dismiss the case as of Friday afternoon.
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, made the order Thursday to speed up the process that involves attorneys being cleared to get access to the classified documents.
The Litigation Security Group “is a team of security specialists available to be detailed to the Court to serve as Classified Information Security Officers to assist in the handling and protection of classified information. These CISOs serve in a neutral capacity providing advice and assistance to the Court and the parties in the handling of classified information,” according to a U.S. Courts website.
Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a federal courthouse in Miami to 37 counts that allege he kept sensitive military documents, shared them with people who didn’t have security clearance, and tried to get around the government’s efforts to get them back. He is charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information along with conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal and false statements and representations.
Trump remains free on a recognizance bond without travel restrictions.
