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By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell On Monday, President Donald Trump, along with First Lady Melania Trump, signed a first-of-its-kind executive order to strengthen research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for women and girls throughout every stage of life. The " Executive Order Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life" establishes the White House Women’s Health Task Force to "ensure the Federal Government pursues a comprehensive approach to women’s health that recognizes evolving health needs from infancy, childhood, and adolescence through pregnancy, midlife, menopause, and aging." Brava.  As a woman who is in the later stages of my life, I can point to a litany of assumptions and failures from the medical community in those earlier stages that were less-than-helpful and caused undue complications in my life. I have been blessed that my health has never dictated more than minimal interaction or annual maintenance screenings ...

By Ward Clark The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who are communists by any other name, aren't content with getting fringe candidates elected in safe districts. They're taking their verkakte ideas elsewhere, any place and any time they think they can disrupt things. They are good at one thing — rabble-rousing — and that's about the only thing they're good at, given that their economic plans would end up with Americans standing in lines for the potato ration, and their political ideas would, as communist schemes always do, end up with a lot of people being "re-educated" — or just looking at rifles from the wrong end. Now, these commies are really letting their antisemitic flag fly. The DSA is encouraging cargo workers at John F. Kennedy International Airport to try to interfere with military cargo shipments to Israel . View From the Wing's Gary Leff has details. New York’s Democratic Socialists of America is recruiting JFK airport workers to b...

By Kyle Becker Let’s have a toast to the Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court is re-examining a 158-year-old law that could change how some Americans enjoy their liquor. According to The Washington Times , the justices announced Monday that they will hear a challenge to an 1868 federal law prohibiting home distilling. The dispute centers on Congress's taxing authority and the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which gives lawmakers the power to enact laws necessary and proper for carrying out their enumerated powers. The justices granted the Trump administration's petition to review Department of Justice v. McNutt , in which the 5th Circuit struck down the prohibition earlier this year. The federal government argues that banning home distilling helps prevent tax evasion. A federal appeals court disagreed, ruling in April that Congress exceeded its taxing authority by prohibiting home distilling simply because allowing it could make tax evasion easier. Soli...

By Teri Christoph Instead of behaving like an adult and indulging in a little introspection over her recent threat to punish young conservatives who wish to serve in the Trump administration, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) instead decided complaining about the backlash to her words was the smart thing to do. And her response was exactly what you'd expect from a politician who has "dog mom" in her X bio. As RedState's Ben Smith reported Sunday, Slotkin made some remarkably revealing and deeply concerning comments during an October 13 appearance at the University of Chicago. She was discussing the "signature cases" she believes Democrats should pursue against Trump officials should her party take control of the Senate when she dropped this astonishing thought: "I want young people coming out of school to say, 'Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity,'" Slotkin said. She followed that u...

By Teri Christoph "The distrust is there." That was Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon's stinging response to CBS' Lesley Stahl after Stahl suggested during Sunday's 60 Minutes that the Trump administration's attempts to clean up voter rolls and purge noncitizens from them were undermining Americans' confidence in elections. Stahl was trying to argue that very few noncitizens actually vote – it's the old "it never happens" argument favored by Democrats, despite ample proof to the contrary – and questioned why the administration was making such an effort to secure the elections ahead of the midterms.  “There are people who feel that the point is to sow distrust about the whole election system. There are very few people who are noncitizens who end up voting — very, very few. And so therefore, what’s the purpose?” asked Stahl. “The point is actually the opposite of what you’re saying,” Dhillon replied. “It’s not to sow distrust. T...

By Ben Sellers "It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say." Former President Barack Obama once again inserted himself into the wrong side of a legal discussion after chiming in to defend Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar . Obama — who was sharply criticized during his presidency for meddling in cases such as the Trayvon Martin murder trial and the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates — was brutally ratioed on X with Community Notes pointing out the many errors in his screed. It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with...

By Ward Clark Frank Luntz has been in the political polling game for a long time. He's been right at times and he's been wrong at times, but then, one could say that about most any pollster. It's hardly an exact science.  But there's something that Luntz is on about now that we've heard and seen in other places; the polls now, that are predicting some big Democrat gains, may be badly underestimating Republican voters — particularly Trump voters. Mr. Luntz recently spoke on CNN about the topic . 💥Frank Luntz *DUMPS COLD WATER* on CNN viewers' dreams of blue wave💥 Luntz warned Trump voters "don't respond" to pollster phone calls. He admitted he "got 2016 wrong" because he trusted the exit polls. Luntz asserted he is "skeptical" the current polling is accurate. Moreover, he cast doubt on whether pollsters are using the right measurements and asking the proper questions to determine turnout. Luntz has been a renowned poll...