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Apple, inc. has a problem with political and religious viewpoint discrimination. It routinely takes positions on the hard left, deplatforms conservative web services and apps, and kow-tows to the Maoist dictators in China when they demand the company censor religious content in the app store. 

Well, the Christian ministry The American Family Association is fighting back by filing a proposal holding the company to account for its recurrent patterns of religious and political discrimination. Let them be an example to other Christian ministries and conservative non-profits. 

If a company you’re invested in is need of correction, use your power as a shareholder to put questions before the board and other owners. Too many conservative individuals and institutions complain from a distance while the power to effect change lies right there—in their investment portfolio. 
 
Bravo to AFA, and may others follow their example.

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There's a crime committed on Capitol Hill as October opens. 

10 alleged Republicans, led by Matt Gates of Florida, joined with every Democrat present to oust Kevin McCarthy from the job of Speaker. 

Geatz’s motive is said to be an effort to divert attention from his growing ethics scandal, and to raise money by grabbing airtime. 

McCarthy is the most effective speaker the Republicans have had since Mr. Newt. 

McCarthy notched a huge win over big-spending democrats and the President this summer, but the knuckleheads didn't want to win. They like losing, because losing means chaos and clicks. 

We want to thank Kevin McCarthy for decades of service. 

Inspired by Ronald Reagan to enter politics, McCarthy is one of the genuinely decent and widely admired elected officials in the town full of just the opposite. 

We hope McCarthy continues to serve all of the people he can and has done so for so long. 

We don't cut out a comeback from Kevin. He's always played the long game successfully. 

Some, if not all, of the 10 coupists will be purged by the GOP incrementally, and the GOP majority will continue to depend on McCarthy and his remarkable team for guidance and calm, effective, successful sage wisdom.

Thank you, Speaker McCarthy.

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Dogs chase cars, but they can’t drive one even if they catch it. Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans have the same problem. The eight dissidents cited the willingness of Speaker Kevin McCarthy to work across the aisle as a reason to remove him. They then joined every Democrat in the House to remove McCarthy as Speaker despite opposition from 210 Republicans.

They had no plan, no alternative strategy, and have left the caucus in chaos for no good reason. 

The next Speaker will get elected from the current leadership, all of whom supported McCarthy. Whoever wins will face the same problem McCarthy did—narrow control over the House while Democrats control the Senate and White House. Nothing will change for House Republicans.

Gaetz’ defenders claim that the “message” sent was worth the chaos. 

The only message this sends is that some 5 percent of the GOP want to burn down the House—and don’t mind partnering with Democrats to do it. 

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On Saturday, a man committed a crime in an attempt to obstruct Congress from considering a funding bill. Was this another “MAGA” activist of the kind pursued by the Department of Justice for the last two-plus years? No. It was Jamaal Bowman, Democrat congressman from New York, who pulled a clearly labeled fire alarm as his party complained about a rushed vote. 

Given the security risks involved, a large emergency response ensued, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars—but giving Democrats a little more time to caucus ahead of the vote.

This is almost literally yelling fire in a crowded theater. It’s a crime in DC that carries a potential six-month sentence. More importantly, it was a crime intended to obstruct Congress. Democrats have demanded severe punishment for Americans involved in the January 6 riot for the same action. 

Equal justice demands prosecution of Bowman for his criminal conduct. The House must also expel Bowman as a lesson to others. If they don’t, we’ll normalize and incentivize future fire-alarm stunts in highly charged debates.

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stinging rebuke to the Biden administration. The court found that the Biden administration's pattern of pressuring social media companies to censor politically disfavored content violated the 1st Amendment. 

Musk opened the floodgates when he bought Twitter and released the records showing almost daily coordination between government and social media companies. When the feds and mega tech companies team up against a Stanford epidemiologist, such as plaintiff Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, for speaking the truth, it’s time to fight back. 

The lawsuit led by Missouri and Louisiana AGs, and The New Civil Liberties Alliance, assisted by an amicus brief from the Alliance Defending Freedom, successfully prevailed over a pattern which amounts to one of the worst violations of First Amendment law in American history. 
 
Congratulations to the plaintiffs, their counsel, but most of all to the American people, whose First Amendment rights were vindicated. 

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Constitutions in many countries talk about the concept of freedom of speech. What’s always set America apart is our dedication to free speech in practice.

Once, opposing censorship was a bedrock principle of liberalism. 

Organizations like the ACLU were founded on the premise that even hateful speech deserves protection.  

But times have changed. A Real Clear Opinion poll reveals that free speech is becoming a partisan issue, with Democrats more willing to allow government to regulate speech.

This is dangerous. If government decides what information we can access, it decides what we know—or, at least, what we have the opportunity to know. That’s the end of any country where the people are supposed to rule: for a democratic republic to function as intended, an informed electorate is indispensable.

Americans of all political stripes need to understand: the First Amendment protects the liberty of every citizen, regardless of party, regardless of the popularity of the opinion.

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The Joe Biden presidency has careened from one disgrace and debacle to another – and voters have not just noticed, but are now rejecting Biden in droves. Even in two normally friendly media polls this weekend, Biden hit new lows on job approval and the economy.

That was not the worst of the news in the surveys, either. The Washington Post actually repudiated its own survey as an “outlier” when it showed Donald Trump with a ten-point lead over Biden. 

The NBC News poll had an even broader rejection of Biden. Seventy-four percent of all voters expressed significant concerns over Biden’s mental and physical health. Fifty-nine percent of all voters called those concerns “major,” clearly demonstrating that Biden has lost the confidence of a bipartisan majority of American voters.

Voters turned against Biden two years ago after his disgraceful abandonment of Americans and allies in Afghanistan. The longer they look at Biden, the less confidence they have in his leadership and even his basic competence.

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Americans watched as 8,000 illegal immigrants per day crossed our border last week. What they didn’t see is the migrants the Biden administration is sneaking into the US.
 
Under this stealth program, illegal immigrants can fly directly from their hometowns into a US city of their choice. They use the Biden administration’s smartphone app to choose a destination. They meet with US officials at land ports of entry, like international airports, where they’re waved in by US Customs. They then fly to any city they please.
 
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, more than 210,000 migrants have entered America this way since January. We’ve effectively added Des Moines, Iowa or Rochester, New York to our country in less than a year.
 
No country that cares about its own citizens—or the rule of law—does business this way.
 
It needs to stop.

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The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article telling us that it’s somehow a good thing that unemployment is rising, because more joblessness is part of the Fed's plan to fight inflation. 

Nonsense! 

Only a Keynesian would think that too many people working and providing goods and services causes inflation. Unfortunately, the Fed and most of the financial press which covers it is made up of Keynesians. Government always tries to blame the people for the problems it creates. 

The problem isn't too many people at work producing too much wealth. 

The problem is too many dollars in circulation. Inflation is debasement of currency and there is no such thing as an economy which is too productive. The Fed’s policy of hiking interest rates to slow the economy to put people out of work is not only ineffective, but also cruel.

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Republicans have long argued that the legacy media simply does the bidding of the Biden White House. The Biden White House inadvertently showed it agrees with them.

After House Republicans opened an impeachment inquiry, a White House spokesman issued a memo to news outlets telling the media how to cover the story.

This defies belief. In America, the government isn’t supposed to be telling our supposedly free press how to cover the news. But then again, this is the administration that was caught censoring social media coverage of stories unfavorable to it.

Just as bad as the administration’s arrogant meddling is the media’s meek response. A free press worth its salt should have been outraged at any government official daring to tell them how to do their job. Instead, all we heard were the sounds of silence.

And that’s too pathetic for words.

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