Scholastic is taking heat from far-left authors after it announced a recent decision not to offer books that focus on LGBT themes and racism at book fairs in schools. For millions of students across the country, such fairs offer the excitement of stories old and new and they have become...

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On Oct. 7, the world saw first-hand the worst attack perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. It all began when Hamas -- the Democratically-elected political authority of the Gaza Strip -- barraged Israel with a flurry of rockets. Under the cover of that fire, Hamas troops invaded the...

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The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union is outraged at just about everything former President Donald Trump says, but it supports his freedom to say it. The ACLU has filed a brief opposing the gag order imposed on Trump by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as part of Trump’s federal election...

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Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for the government to shut down San Francisco’s main federal office building -- which was recently renamed after ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi -- because of the dangerous conditions around the building. Ernst said that the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in...

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Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida offered a behind-the-scenes look Wednesday at how former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been angling to try to regain his post by being a "swampy" saboteur of the other candidates. Gaetz told reporters on Capitol Hill prior to the vote to elect Rep. Mike Johnson...

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House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke to the the full house after GOP Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected as Speaker of House on Wednesday. In a rant that could have only been dreamed up by someone suffering from leftist ideological fever dreams, Jefferies unloaded a litany of...

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Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York has been charged with a misdemeanor in connection with a fire alarm being pulled in a congressional office build last month. A warrant was issued Wednesday charging Bowman with a misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm -- carries a maximum penalty...

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Former President Donald Trump has been cleared of at least one of the many nuisance charges Democrats have thrown at him since he left office in 2020. After a lengthy, four-year review, a Department of Justice watchdog has officially found that Trump did not improperly influence the FBI's decision to...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to bring forth a bill offering aid to Israel shortly after he won the gavel on Wednesday afternoon. "The world needs us to be strong. They need us to remember our creed and our admonition," the Louisiana Republican said during remarks on the House floor...

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Former President Donald Trump was slapped with a fine on Wednesday for comments he made regarding his civil lawsuit. CNN reports that Justice Arthur Engoron, who previously threatened to put Trump behind bars unless he stopped discussing his case outside the courtroom, fined the former president $10,000 for violation of...

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In 1787-88, the people of the state ratifying conventions could never have envisioned something like this when they created the federal government. On Tuesday, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas filed a lawsuit against multiple federal officials, including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing U.S. Customs and Border...

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Newly sworn-in House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out what he sees as the seven core principles of not just American conservatism, but American greatness. In an approximately 19-minute speech delivered after receiving the speaker's gavel on Wednesday, Johnson said, "We stand at a very dangerous time. I'm stating the obvious....

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Wednesday was day two of the testimony of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of former President Donald Trump in his business fraud trial in the New York State Supreme Court. Trump attorney Alina Habba pulled out all the stops when it came to "impeaching" the former president's disgruntled ex-employee's...

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One of the advantages conservatives have over leftists is leftists do not really understand conservatives. Leftists carry around a caricature in the minds of what they imagine conservatives are like. They do not realize their assumptions are the result of carefully noscripted propaganda and media manipulation. The scary bogeymen conjured...

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I understand that cost-cutting at Disney has left those employed by the House of Mouse in a grim situation these past few years. However, the maxim that you've got to spend money to make money still holds sway -- and losing billions of dollars over a couple of free theme...

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When does campus activism move from free speech to material support for terrorism? One could fairly easily -- and noncontroversially -- posit that the line gets drawn whenever the activists specifically say they're joining with the terrorists, and not just in solidarity. If they've issued a so-called toolkit to get...

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A 911 call made on the night chef Tafari Campbell disappeared while paddleboarding near Barack and Michelle Obama’s Massachusetts estate was made public Tuesday. Campbell's body was found July 24 in shallow water in Edgartown Great Pond, very close to the former president's property on Martha’s Vineyard. He had been...

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For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.

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Former President Donald Trump bolted out of a New York courtroom after the presiding judge, a Democrat, denied his request for a directed verdict despite the fact that the testimony of the state's star witness fell apart. "Trump immediately got up and stormed out of the courtroom with Secret Service...

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I'll say this about Ryna Workman: She's certainly willing to put her future earnings potential where her mouth is. If you don't know who Workman is, you might know her case: She's the New York University Law School student who lost both a postgraduate job with a prestigious law firm...

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The media was having so much fun with the "chaos" regarding who would be the next House speaker that they wanted to continue it even after a new House speaker was elected. And, thank ye heavens, he was having none of it. According to The Associated Press, after weeks of...

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