Tim Scott Heads to Iowa

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Tim Scott Heads to Iowa

(Eric Felten, RealClear Wire) It’s an open question whether the Iowa Democrats’ abysmal job of counting votes in recent caucuses has cost the state the honor of going first in the presidential nominating process, but Sen. Tim Scott was scheduled to kick off a “listening tour” at Drake University in Des Moines on Wednesday. The South Carolina Republican is there to showcase the ideas and ideals that would animate a Tim Scott run at the White House.

If Scott does enter the 2024 race, he’s likely to build his campaign less on particular issues than on his personal experience growing up African American in hardscrabble poverty in the Deep South, and yet finding boundless opportunity in America nonetheless. “From cotton to Congress,” South Carolina political consultant Luke Byars told RealClearPolitics. “His story needs to be told.”

Moreover, says Byars, Scott has proved he has one of the skills essential to any presidential candidate: “He can raise money.”

The senator has already filled a solid war chest. In 2021 and 2022, Scott’s senatorial campaign raised nearly $54 million – for a safe GOP seat. By way of comparison, that’s more than the $51 million frantically raised by Pennsylvania Republican candidate Mehmet Oz, whose campaign was seen as a national referendum on Republicans, as well as a race that might have swung the election.

Scott not only out-raised Oz, he did so even though his 2022 challenger wasn’t even close: Scott beat Democrat Krystle Matthews by a margin of 62% to 37%. Scott supporters point to the 2022 election; they say it demonstrated an ability and willingness to solicit contributions.

This talent might be useful for more than bragging rights. As of the end of last year, Scott was sitting on nearly $22 million in his Senate campaign coffers. Federal campaign law allows a federal candidate to take money left over from a previous campaign for federal office and transfer it to a different FEC-authorized campaign committee. For example, when Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced she was entering the 2020 presidential contest, she launched her new campaign with over $10 million transferred from her Senate campaign.

It’s not enough to get through a modern presidential primary, but it is a real head-start. Scott raised $4.5 million in South Carolina. But he also showed he could raise funds nationally, collecting over $3 million in California, $2.9 million in Florida and $2.7 million in Texas.

By contrast, fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, the second Republican – Donald Trump was the first –to announce a bid for the White House in 2024, has some catching up to do. Although she has fundraising chops of her own – and, as South Carolina governor, is the one who appointed Tim Scott to his seat – her most recent post, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is not conducive to either gathering or storing campaign money.

What of the campaign trail itself? Is Scott ready for the derision Donald Trump routinely hurls at any candidate who dares to challenge him? Even veterans of famously rough-and-tumble South Carolina politics suggested that the GOP electorate is tiring of Trump’s taunts and may be ready for a new standard-bearer: “You don’t have to be a jerk to be an effective leader,” said Byars.

Scott’s advisers believe his sunny disposition will be a pleasant alternative to the downbeat politics of the recent past. Scott himself sounds confident that his own biography is his best advertisement. Nearly a high school dropout, Scott turned his life around, in part, he says, by participating in Boys State, a program run by the American Legion that introduces high school boys and girls in their junior year to the world of politics and government. Scott played football in college, where he majored in political science, launched a successful insurance business, and worked as a county councilman, state legislator, and a member of the House of Representatives.

For those who remember the South Carolina of old, Tim Scott’s political career as a conservative Republican is almost vertigo-inducing. POLITICO may have termed him “a Tea Party talent scout,” but to win his seat in Congress, Tim Scott had to defeat the son of Strom Thurmond, South Carolina’s most famous 20th century segregationist. And when Haley appointed him to fill the term of retiring Sen. Jim DeMint, Scott not only became the Palmetto State’s first black senator, he took the seat once occupied by notorious Civil War-era racist James Henry Hammond, a man who described slavery as “the greatest of all the great blessings which a kind Providence has bestowed upon our glorious region.”

As a senator, Scott is deeply involved in African American causes, but not in a way that is a familiar one on Capitol Hill. He pursues market solutions to the problem of poverty and champions conservative proposals such as school choice and opportunity zones. He has also grappled with police reform and sponsored legislation requiring federal agencies to participate with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, helping the schools to share in federal educational grant money.

Many wonder whether Tim Scott isn’t already behind the curve in our ever-more compressed presidential campaign cycle. Has he been bumped out of the running by Nikki Haley’s early announcement? Scott and his team don’t seem to think so. They see a value in waiting, and not falling into the trap of delivering the same repetitive stump speech for months to come. Scott does not plan to be in the pack. First, he has to make up his mind to really do it, his advisers say. If so, instead of the long grind, Scott and his team will be looking for the sort of moment one of the senator’s advisers dubs “lightening in a bottle.”

Thanks to the early husbanding of campaign money, he can be patient and wait for the right moment, which is likely to be this summer. But wintertime is where the seeds of presidential ambitions are sewn, which is why Tim Scott is in Iowa this week.

SCOTUS Snubs Case to Reinstate Trump as President

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SCOTUS Snubs Case to Reinstate Trump as President

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit from three Utah brothers who want to oust Joe Biden from the Oval Office and replace him with Donald Trump.

This January, SCOTUS declined to consider Brunson v. Adams, which claimed nearly 400 members of Congress violated their oaths of office by not investigating claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and certifying Biden’s Electoral College “win” on Jan. 6, 2021. The brothers wanted to remove Biden, Kamala Harris and those members of Congress from office, and immediately put Trump back into the president’s seat, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

In an appeal filed on Jan. 26, Raland Brunson, the lead plaintiff in the case, and his brothers Loy and Deron argued the Supreme Court should reconsider the decision not to hear the case because it “represents a very powerful domestic covert operation” that impacted the national security of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

According to the rules of the Supreme Court, any petition for rehearing will only be granted if a majority of the nine justices agree.

The case became so famous that even Trump himself posted a link to a story about the petition for a re-hearing on his Truth Social account last week.

Deron, who drafted the lawsuit, said after filing the petition for a rehearing that the justices would be violating their own oath of office if they won’t agree to take up the case.

After SCOTUS denied the suit, Ralan wrote on Facebook that they are working on a yet-to-be-revealed “plan C,” promising to share more details in the coming days.

“We have been working long and hard on these strategies and there are more to come,” Brunson wrote.

The brothers vowed to continue trying to remove Biden from office, urging their supporters to flood the Supreme Court with a pre-written affidavit arguing that a stolen election is an act of war on this country and demanding each justice who refused to hear the case to explain why they did so.

Pelosi Secures $400M for Golden Gate Bridge

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Pelosi Secures $400M for Golden Gate Bridge

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The Golden Gate Bridge is getting a $400 million grant, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced, according to Fox News.

The funding for this project came from the 2021 bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, a $1.2 trillion bill meant to fund improvements for infrastructure. In addition to rebuilding bridges and roads, funding also went toward projects like expanding broadband access, increasing the number of electric vehicle charging stations, and environmental remediation.

According to Fox, the grant will primarily go toward a “seismic retrofit project to protect the bridge from a large-scale earthquake.” The bridge was most recently seismically retrofitted from 1997 to 2014, at a cost of over $385 million. The next phase, which this grant will help fund, is expected to take six years and cost $879 million.

While the project is an appropriate use of funds under this program, the massive price tag raises questions regarding the former speaker’s influence in securing these funds. It is unusual for grants this large to go toward local projects, and Pelosi’s outsized influence in Congress likely helped secure such a large amount of funding for a major project in her home district.

Fox notes that senators from California, Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, also played a role in obtaining the funding, with the pair jointly submitting the formal funding request.

Powerful politicians are consistently able to direct federal tax dollars to their lucky constituents.

Malcom X’s Family Suing the CIA, FBI and NYPD over Assassination

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Malcom X’s Family Suing the CIA, FBI and NYPD over Assassination

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The family of Malcolm X is suing the CIA, FBI and New York Police Department over their role in X’s assassination following a letter by a former police officer claiming he conspired with the agencies to enable the assassination, and the overturning of the convictions of two men falsely accused of assassinating X.

The family of X released a 2011 letter, written by a dead undercover NYPD officer named Raymond Wood, that alleged the FBI and NYPD were behind the assassination, according to Axios.

In this letter, Wood wrote that he was ordered to ensure that X had no security at the door of the Harlem building where he was scheduled to speak, spoke at and was assassinated by gunmen rushing the stage.

Specifically, Wood said he was ordered to convince X’s two doormen into committing crimes and arresting them days before the assassination, according to the Washington Post.

Wood alleged that these actions were part of a conspiracy by the NYPD and FBI to assassinate X.

In his letter, Wood reported he was hired by the NYPD to infiltrate the civil rights groups “to find evidence of criminal activity, so the F.B.I. could discredit and arrest its leaders.”

The NYPD reported it “has provided all available records relevant to the case to the District Attorney. The Department remains committed to assist with that review in any way.” The FBI refused to comment.

The family waited to release Wood’s letter until his death out of fear of retaliation from the NYPD and FBI.

X’s family is now suing the CIA, FBI, and NYPD over the murder. The daughters of X spoke about the lawsuit, according to Reuters.

“For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder and we’d like our father to receive the justice that he deserves,” X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz said.

The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, also addressed the lawsuit.

“It’s not just about the trigger men, it’s about those who conspired with the trigger men to do this dastardly deed,” he said.

Recent developments in the criminal case of X’s assassination give the lawsuit even more credibility, according to another Reuters article.

The convictions against Muhammad Aziz, 83, and Khalil Islam who died in prison, for assassinating Malcom X were vacated by a New York judge at the request of the
Manhattan district attorney’s office, which reported that law enforcement agencies withheld exonerating evidence during the trial.

One of Malcolm X’s daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, commented on what she called the “long overdue” overturning of the conviction.

“Full justice will not be served until all parties involved in the orchestrated killing of our father are identified and brought to justice,” she said.

The FBI and CIA have a long history of engaging in the behavior they are accused of by the family of X.

For example, the FBI and CIA trained the primary author of the recent Proud Boys sting. One of the defendants in the Proud Boys trial made the connection clear.

“The most damning document in this trial was authored by the intelligence community—someone ‘groomed’ by the FBI itself.”

How Long Can Karine Jean-Pierre Keep Her White House Press Pass?

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How Long Can Karine Jean-Pierre Keep Her White House Press Pass?

(William Haupt III, The Center Square) “Most reporters in the galley are handpicked by the president and won’t put you on the spot. If you don’t know the answer, tell them so. Don’t make a fool of yourself making excuses. ” – Jen Psaki

During the early years of our government, reporters were not allowed in the White House except on special occasions. Most legislative sessions were off limits out of fear they would tarnish the image of the new government. For years, they’d wait outside the capitol to catch up with senators or representatives to get a scoop of federal news. They had little contact directly with the president or his staff.

In 1904, Teddy Roosevelt invited rain-soaked reporters into the White House. They were awestruck that he offered them an office to work in and brought them coffee and food. And this was the birth of the White House Press Corps. Soon, reporters grew in presence and this terrarium of newsmen morphed into the outpost that repeated White House approved news to influence public opinion.

The White House press secretary is a liaison between the president and reporters to keep him off the hot seat. They are presidential favorites, with or without experience. Some have done their job well, while others failed. Some made contentious statements; others were soft-spoken. All must be loyal to the president and defend his actions. They must be a beacon of confidence on the podium.

The position of White House press secretary is an extremely challenging job. That individual must know a great deal about politics and current events. They must know the president’s agenda and his opinions and react without hesitation. It’s a tough job and a baptism of fire in front of the nation.

“The press secretary’s job is so arduous few presidents could handle it themselves.” – Nikki Hale

Press secretaries speak for the president. It is important they are chosen for their experience not their gender or their race. Yet when Jen Psaki left to take a job at MSNBC, Joe Biden hired novice Karine Jean-Pierre because she checked the boxes. She is black, a woman and she is openly gay.

The only political experience that Jean-Pierre had was short-lived jobs working on the Democratic presidential campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008, John Edwards in 2004 and Martin O’Malley in 2016. Since accepting this job in May, Jean-Pierre has responded to reporters with “I don’t have anything on that,” or, “I’ll get back to you on that issue later” at least 100 times in the briefing room.

From day one on the job, she has not given a clear, succinct answer to most questions. She talks in circles as if she is avoiding saying anything she thinks Joe Biden might not approve of or make her look ignorant. Her responses are more like meaningless word salads much the same as you would get from Kamala Harris. She acts like someone on trial who has no attorney defending themselves.

Jean-Pierre’s near-total dependence on a binder full of administration talking points is distracting. This is a book compiled for her by Biden’s advisors with indexed notes for her to reference if she needs to clarify a topic. She frantically pages through this book looking for answers these reporters already know and just want clarified. When she can’t find the answer she says, “I have nothing on that.”

“I never trust anyone who must look inside a book to answer a simple question.” – Kelly Sadler

It’s one thing for a press secretary to have notes for reference. But it shows her lack of confidence and knowledge when she stares down at them constantly and reads those notes verbatim. Unlike her predecessor, Jen Psaki, she had Biden’s talking points down cold and she didn’t need a crutch.

Lately, Jean-Pierre has been claiming that she can’t answer questions since it would be in violation of the Hatch Act. “The Hatch Act is federal law intended to prevent citizens working in government from taking advantage of their government positions to campaign for candidates or their parties.” Obviously someone on the Left told her to use that as an excuse if she cannot answer a question.

Recently, when queried that most economists agree that the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” might affect inflation in the long-term in some way but it will do nothing short-term, Jean-Pierre stoically retorted, “Well, I mean, that’s something we disagree on – so we’ll have to wait and see.”

Jean-Pierre inherited Biden gaff syndrome. Congratulating three Americans who won Nobel Prizes in chemistry, she confused “Nobel” five times as “noble.” She also conflated Russia’s “Nord Stream 1” natural gas pipeline with the upscale department store, “Nostrums.” and repeated it three times.

Karine Jean-Pierre has had jobs in public service but she has never had a position where she had to openly react and think on her feet. Also, as a committed progressive, she overtly tries to inject her progressive beliefs into answers at her briefings, which violates her obligation to repeat facts.

One reporter said the reason why Karine Jean-Pierre still has the high-visibility press secretary’s job despite all of the gaffes is because Biden is legendary for his own innumerable gaffes. And it would be highly hypocritical and embarrassing for him to hold her to a higher standard than himself.

Laurence Peter, author of the “Peter Principle,” wrote, “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” People are hired or promoted for various reasons, many are totally unrelated to their new position and they do not do well. The types of jobs that Jean-Pierre had in the past did not qualify or train her for a position of this type, which is a living example of the Washington “Peter Principle.”

The GOP, the media and even some Democrats wonder how long Jean-Pierre can keep her White House press pass: As long as she wants to. While campaigning, Biden promised he’d fill the White House with identity groups, and put them in key positions. Since 20% of his voting base is black, the NAACP and other liberal black activist groups are holding his feet to the fire on Jean-Pierre.

The Democratic Party has sworn undying allegiance to identity politics. Biden made a deal with the devil when the DNC offered him the job he always wanted by default. Over half of the original black staffers for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have left in the past two years. Others said they plan to be leaving soon, since there is no chance for advancement and their jobs are mediocre and boring.

The role of the press secretary has evolved into a position of prominence. People consider them the closest person to the president and they are his mouthpiece. Joe Biden shot himself in the foot by giving such a high profile position to Jean-Pierre. She has no clue about foreign policy so John Kirby is now bailing her out. How long will Biden sacrifice the future of his party for Jean-Pierre?

The left’s reliance on identity politics proves that the Peter Principle has taken over Washington.

“Karine Jean-Pierre has very friendly reporters. They’re never going to be particularly tough with her. And she’s still incompetent and incoherent. She’s bad on a good day.” – Mollie Hemingway

FDA Panel OKs Making Narcan Available for Over-The-Counter Use

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FDA Panel OKs Making Narcan Available for Over-The-Counter Use

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously voted to recommend the agency approve Narcan, a life-saving drug for opioid overdoses, be made available to purchase over the counter without a prescription.

Narcan is accessible for free and low cost online, through a range of community organizations, and through pharmacies with and without a prescription and with or without insurance.

Here’s how Americans can get it.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have “access laws or alternate arrangements in place that allow persons to obtain naloxone from a pharmacist without an individualized, in-person prescription,” Narcan.com reports. The majority of states and the District of Columbia have Naloxone standing orders, which allow adults to purchase the drug from a licensed pharmacy without a prescription, Rehabs.org explains.

The majority of states have also authorized third-party prescriptions, meaning pharmacists and doctors can prescribe and dispense Naloxone. All state health departments also have information about Naloxone training programs and resources to acquire the drug, including free access.

However, making the drug available over the counter will make it more accessible, those on the panel argued. On Feb. 15, the panel voted 19-0 to recommend the agency do so. The FDA has said it will make a decision by March 29, although the decision could come sooner.

In December, Emergent BioSolutions, which was first authorized to sell NARCAN Nasal Spray in 2015, announced the FDA had fast-tracked its application to sell the drug over the counter.

Greater access to Naloxone, law enforcement officers have told The Center Square, has the potential to save countless lives. It’s important to note that while Naloxone is successfully used in emergencies, it doesn’t replace emergency medical care, health officials warn.

Naloxone has been effective in treating fentanyl poisoning. Illicit fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid, is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Two milligrams, roughly the weight of a mosquito, and small enough to fit on the tip of a pencil, is considered a potentially lethal dose.

In December, the DEA announced that in 2022, it seized enough fentanyl to kill more than everyone in the U.S. Since March 2021, Texas law enforcement officers have seized over 360 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill more than everyone in the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the last two years have also seized enough fentanyl coming through the southern border to kill everyone in the U.S. multiple times over.

The DEA has published several public safety alerts about the dangers of fentanyl. Florida’s One Pill Can Kill website and Fast Facts on Fentanyl toolkit include a DEA Emoji Drug Code to educate parents about how dealers are selling illicit drugs targeting minors through social media apps.

Children under age 14 are dying from fentanyl poisoning at a faster rate than any other age group in the U.S., according to a new analysis from Families Against Fentanyl. Fentanyl poisoning remains the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 18 and 45 years old, according to the CDC.

Legendary Journalist Says He Knows What the ‘Mystery Object’ Was the US Military Shot Down Over Alaska

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Legendary Journalist Says He Knows What the ‘Mystery Object’ Was the US Military Shot Down Over Alaska

(Jon Miltimore, FEE) On Saturday US officials announced the military was calling off the search for the balloon objects shot down by fighter jets over Alaska and Lake Huron.

The announcement, The Guardian reported, came “days after balloon hobbyists in northern Illinois indicated that one of the stray unidentified flying objects could belong to their group.”

Authorities have yet to confirm what the objects were, though we know that the one shot down near the US-Canada border was taken out by an F-22, which blasted the object with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at about 40,000 feet.

Journalist Seymour Hersh, however, says he does know. The legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, who recently appeared on Russell Brand’s YouTube show to discuss the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, said sources tell him the US military took out one of its own weather devices.

“Can I tell you about the balloons?” Hersh asked Brand after making a crack about the British comedian’s colorful stocking hat. “The federal government has a contract with the meteorology department, the weather department, at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks—that is one cold place, it’s way up there.”

Hersh, who said he’s visited the university campus there, said it’s so cold in Fairbanks that there’s no weather station there.

So the university uses what Hersh describes as small aerial vehicles that collect weather data that is transmitted back to officials at the university, who can notify pilots flying over the Arctic Circle of any unusual weather activity.

“They are reporters of that information, and that was what was shot down,” Hersh told Brand. “One of those units…that is sent up by the university but paid by the government to go over the Arctic Circle and report on extreme [weather].”

Little Green Men?

We don’t yet know for certain what the US military shot down. Hersh sounded quite confident, however, though he expressed skepticism that the government would own up to its snafu.

Naturally, various theories have emerged. The New York Times floated the idea that perhaps, ahem, aliens were involved, noting that the US military shooting down a civilian aerial device would be a lackluster ending to a story that had captivated the country.

“For a nation that has been riveted by this saga since the aerial assaults on mysterious objects began — Pop! Pop! Pop! — the end felt incomplete,” says Times writer Katie Rogers. “Were aliens involved?”

Negative, the White House responded. Nothing to suggest it was aliens.

How about surveillance machines of “mysterious provenance”?

Once again, negative, the White House answered.

‘A Shortage of Sand’

While we don’t know for sure, Hersh’s answer seems the most plausible. After being chided in the press for allowing a Chinese surveillance balloon to travel unmolested across the continental United States for days, it seems a rattled Pentagon and Biden Administration panicked and shot down several benign aerial devices, including one of its weather machines (one it commissions, if it doesn’t own directly).

For those who love a good conspiracy, this answer might be disappointing. Surely the government is hiding something.

While there is no shortage of state-sanctioned cover-ups and atrocities in human history, it’s easy to forget that governments are usually more incompetent than sinister.

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand,” the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once quipped.

So my money says Sy Hersh has it right again.

NC Values Group Takes on the Trans Industrial Complex

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NC Values Group Takes on the Trans Industrial Complex

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) For 17 years, Tami Fitzgerald has been been working to preserve family-oriented values in her home state of North Carolina.

As executive director of the NC Values Coalition, she is focused on fighting issues like the transgender takeover of women’s sports, gender-transition surgeries for children and indoctrination in the classroom.

Fitzgerald said that some of the culture-war issues her organization currently champions have been around for as long as she has been advocating for the preservation of Christian-centered morals to prevail in public policy.

“These are kind of like the Holy Grail of the Left, these statutes, and I have not researched how long North Carolina’s has been on the books, but longer than I’ve been doing what I’m doing,” she told Headline USA in a recent interview.

Since the start of the Biden administration, however, they have picked up considerable steam.

“What really started out as an ideology has now become an industry, so that doctors are making massive amounts of money off of this unsubstantiated ‘medical care,'” she said while discussing concerns over transgender surgeries for children.

“If you look at the science behind it, there really is none,” she added. “… The science proves that it’s more harmful than it does good.”

In fact, she said, a study had shown that those who undergo transgender surgery were 40 times more likely to commit suicide than before the surgery.

“There’s no evidence whatsoever that transitioning clears up the underlying mental condition of the patient,” she said. “So doctors are doing these surgeries purely for money with no ethics and no science behind it.”

Nationwide, several prominent medical institutions including the Boston Children’s Hospital; the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville; and the University of California, San Francisco have been exposed for their advocacy.

Yet, even in regions where they remain wildly unpopular, woke institutions are quietly trying to cash in.

In North Carolina, where more than half of the public supports legislation that would ban trans surgeries for kids and teens, according to NC Values’s polling, Fitzgerald said four major medical centers were embracing the practice: Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Eastern Carolina University and the Greensboro-based Cone Health.

Additionally, private practices have flourished in blue-run cities like Charlotte, where clinics like the Cosmetic Concierge not only operate on teenage patients, but even post their nude photographs online.

“What people also don’t realize: In North Carolina, we have the most liberal statute in the country on medical treatment for minors,” Fitzgerald said.

That includes within the schools, where counselors are able to claim “mental health” as a reason for promoting treatment on a range of pernicious issues without any parental consent or notification—even for children as young as 5.

The current statute “allows a child to go into the school health clinic and say ‘I’m struggling with my gender,’ and they deem it a mental-health issue, and then the child can consent to all kinds of treatment … and so, that just throws them completely to the wolves,” Fitzgerald said.

Nonetheless, she said NC Values was optimistic about passing several upcoming bills in a legislature where only a single Democrat vote is needed to override the veto of Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper.

Still, keeping all the Republican lawmakers in lockstep may be another challenge of its own.

The immense popular support that the legislation has—along with legislation the coalition supports for a parental bill of rights in schools, a ban on transgenders in school sports and a heartbeat bill that would limit abortions—is one thing that NC Values has going for it.

The organization already has seen tremendous support in its efforts to fight school indoctrination at the grassroots level.

Last year, it created what it called the Mama Bear Manual to help guide parents through the process of fighting for tranparency in their local school systems, and saw tremendous response from three workshops it conducted.

It had help from strong allies like North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican who has made opposition to the woke curriculum a signature priority as he eyes a potential run for governor next year.

NC Values also has partnered with groups like Pavement Education Project, which is focused on removing obscene content from school libraries.

As far as preserving women’s sports for women, it has gotten support from high-profile coaches like Barbara Ehardt, who led four different NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball teams before winning a seat in the Idaho state legislature.

With the issue of banning transgender athletes enjoying roughly 80% popular support in North Carolina, Fizgerald marveled that lawmakers had been dragging their feet on it for so long.

“Why do we have to wait to pass legislation until someone’s daughter gets hurt?” she asked.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Democrat PAC Stole Military Records of GOP Candidates to Smear Them in Midterms

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Democrat PAC Stole Military Records of GOP Candidates to Smear Them in Midterms

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) During the 2022 elections, multiple Republican candidates’ military records were reportedly illegally exposed to the general public, leading to continuous attacks on their persons and negatively impacting their campaigns and electoral outcomes.

These records were supposed to be confidential and not released to the public, unless the requester used channels provided by the law. The sensitive records, by contrast, were  obtained by tricks and lies, according to 100 Percent FedUp.

One of the more insidious cases was that of Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green. Democrat opposition research company Due Diligence Group LLC exposed the veteran as a victim of sexual assault. Aside from the leak making her relive a previous trauma, it also opened her to a nationwide backlash from members of the opposition and her party.

An Air Force spokesperson revealed that the Democrat opposition researchers lied to obtain the information. The spokesperson said that the organization hid behind an employment background-check ruse to get the information.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, also had their military records and information released without their consent. According to Bacon, Airforce Secretary Frank Kendall told him that an internal probe revealed that 11 people’s information was released without proper authorization.

Bacon noted that Frank said the results of the probe would be sent to the Department of Justice. However, he didn’t state if the DOJ would launch a formal investigation into the report. Despite this, Bacon has called for a probe into the role Due Diligence Group LLC played in obtaining his records.

Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., is looking to make the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee accountable for its involvement in the leak. This is because reports have it that the DCCC paid the opposition research firm involved with the leak more than $100,000 over two years. He has charged the DOJ to investigate the matter.

“This systematic weaponization of Republican candidates’ military service against them is beyond disgusting,” Hudson said. “It is time for the DCCC to stop hiding and face accountability for their actions.”

Amazon Workers Revolt When Required to Go into Office 3 Days a Week

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Amazon Workers Revolt When Required to Go into Office 3 Days a Week

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Amazon workers are revolting against the company after executives released a mandate requiring them to work in the office three days a week.

Several employees are writing up petitions and many are threatening to leave the company after the memo, sent by CEO Andy Jassy, which explained that teams are usually more productive when they work together in the office.

The memo went out on Friday. Shortly after it was released employees united in a Slack channel titled “Remote Advocacy,” which now has at least 14,000 members, according to the Daily Wire

The vast majority of the Amazon staff claimed they were already searching for another job as a result of the impending change.

“This is going to be absolute chaos and make everyone’s work distracted for probably a quarter, maybe longer,” one employee wrote. “It’s hard to be productive with so much uncertainty injected into our lives.”

The change in work arrangements follows a recent rash of layoffs and a hiring freeze from the company, which also triggered the staff.

Despite this fear, Amazon’s remote workers—who have been known to sue the company for things like wi-fi, electricity and at-home office supplies—banded together to write a petition.

“We, the undersigned Amazonians, are responding by petitioning for the right to choose where to work, including remote locations,” an early draft of the petition read.

Amazon executives said the lockdowns made it clear that company culture is withering as people become more and more separated from each other via remote work. There is also some concern about the level of productivity, as a study from Microsoft revealed that many managers are skeptical of their employee’s efficacy.

“It’s easier to learn, model, practice and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together most of the time and surrounded by our colleagues,” Jassy wrote to employees. “When you’re in-person, people tend to be more engaged, observant, and attuned to what’s happening in meetings and the cultural clues being communicated.”

Several tech companies are in the midst of mass layoffs and transitioning from remote work models to traditional office work. Even government officials are requesting workers return to their offices.

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