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"The Southern District has your number"

Last Friday, Florida began administering English-only driver’s license exams, only the fourth state to do so. English-only driving exams make the roads safer for all drivers, and every other state should follow suit.

Recently, the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles office announced that all driver license exams will be administered in English only, including all knowledge exams, Commercial Learner’s Permit, and Commercial Driver License exams. All road signs are in English, so it’s common sense for all driving exams to only be administered in English.

In April, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to strengthen laws ensuring English proficiency for commercial drivers. Before Trump took office, English proficiency requirements were not enforced to obtain a commercial driver’s license.

In 2016, under the Obama administration, commercial drivers who failed to prove proficiency in English, including reading and speaking English and understanding the road signs in English, were not prohibited from operating commercial vehicles.

The Biden administration launched the Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training Grant Program in 2024, which included expanding commercial driving opportunities to refugees. Multiple people have died because of the lack of English language proficiency enforcement.

In August, Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old alien from India who illegally crossed the U.S./Mexico border in 2018, killed three Floridians. He tried to make an illegal U-turn across all lanes of a highway, causing an SUV to crash into the truck.

Singh had obtained a commercial license in Washington state and California. The Department of Transportation revealed that he failed to prove proficiency in English, both on paper and reading road signs. Singh was issued his Washington state commercial license in July 2023 and his California license in July 2024.

In December, Yisong Huang, a 54-year-old Chinese national who illegally entered the U.S. in 2023, killed a woman and injured two others in Tennessee when he crashed into a tractor-trailer while distracted by his phone.

Huang obtained a Class B license in New York under the Biden administration because he was provided with a social security card and work authorization papers.

According to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Huang “failed a basic English test” but was issued a license earlier in 2025 anyway because he was given a Social Security card and work documents–both necessary to obtain a license–when he was released from U.S. Border Patrol after crossing illegally.

Last week, Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old illegal alien from Kyrgyzstan, killed a family of four in Indiana. He obtained his commercial license in Pennsylvania.

If someone is incapable of taking a driving exam in the same language as the road signs, then that person should not be allowed to drive. Doing so puts American drivers at risk, which has unfortunately already happened.

Florida follows Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming as the fourth state to administer driving exams in English only. California offers its regular Class C driver’s license exam in 10 languages including Chinese, Farsi, Punjabi, and Spanish. New York also offers its driver’s license exam in multiple languages including Arabic, Bengali, Haitian Creole, and Urdu.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ move to make driver’s license exams in English only follows the Trump administration’s efforts to hold trucking companies accountable for hiring non-English-speaking drivers, which would also aid in preventing illegal aliens from being hired.

The Trump administration also arrested over 140 illegal alien truck drivers in Operation Midway Blitz, and thousands of truck drivers and commercial driver’s licenses have been affected for failing English proficiency.

Illegal aliens who enter our country are not authorized to work. Nor should they receive ill-gotten benefits subsequent to illegally entering the U.S., including a driver’s license or a commercial driver’s license.

To save lives, it is imperative that the Department of Transportation continue to remove every illegal alien driving with a commercial license from our roads. And states should ensure that all types of drivers can pass English only road safety exams to receive a license.

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'I was not given notice'

AUSTIN, TX — Humanity's voyage to Mars suffered a significant delay following an admission by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that he just learned of a new update to Diablo II: Resurrected, and he would be quite busy playing that for the next few years.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday repealed a ruling that cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes per year.

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'I'm definitely rusty’

BELLEVUE, WA – Once again, innocent lives have been lost in a country with the sort of strict firearm regulations the gun prohibition lobby and anti-gun politicians advocate for here in the United States, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. proves how wrong they are.

“Eight people are dead because Canadian politicians haphazardly believed that restricting millions of honest gun owners would somehow prevent a madman from committing mayhem,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “That has never worked before, it didn’t work in northeast British Columbia, and it won’t work tomorrow in Canada, the United States or anywhere else, and by now, gun control zealots in both countries should have figured that out.”

The suspect, who took his own life, has been identified as an 18-year-old transgender individual who reportedly was known to police, according to the BBC. Authorities have described the shooter as having been born a biological male, “but identified as a woman.” The suspect previously had a gun license, but it expired in 2024, and police had previously visited the suspect’s home and seized guns, which were later returned when the owner petitioned for them. Neither of the guns recovered by police at the crime scene were registered to the shooter.

“As more information about the suspected shooter is made public,” Gottlieb observed, “it is clear this individual had some serious mental and emotional problems. He reportedly murdered his mother and 11-year-old brother before going to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School to continue the deadly rampage.

“What this and other incidents have shown us is that banning certain types of guns, requiring all sorts of paperwork, creating so-called ‘gun-free zones,’ and adopting safe storage mandates will not prevent deranged individuals from committing deadly crimes,” he continued. “Anyone who thinks otherwise is horribly mistaken, if not completely delusional.

“It is time for the gun control crowd on both sides of the border to come to their senses,” Gottlieb stated. “Penalizing law-abiding citizens with onerous gun restrictions is a social experiment which was obviously fatally flawed from the beginning, and we can only hope Canadian authorities will finally recognize that, and try some other strategy.”

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BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is calling on New England Second Amendment advocates and activists to mark their calendars for May 30, and save the date!

CCRKBA, in conjunction with their New England partners — Connecticut Citizens Defense League, Massachusetts Gun Owners’ Action League, Gun Owners of Maine, New Hampshire Firearms Coalition, Rhode Island 2nd Amendment Coalition, and Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs — will host their inaugural Firearms Advocacy Conference on May 30 in Chicopee, Mass. at Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial Dr.

The Firearms Advocacy Conference will bring together some of the top minds and staunchest advocates from the New England states to discuss legislation, litigation, lobbying, and more! Second Amendment giants, legislators, attorneys, and content creators have committed to participating in the event.

“We wanted to create an environment where state and regional organizations could come together and discuss the issues that are unique to their areas,” conference chair and CCRKBA Director Holly Sullivan said. “Launching our inaugural regional conference in New England will bring together states with some of the best and worst gun laws to share strategies as well as highlight potential battles that may come to the more liberty-minded states.”

The New England Firearms Advocacy Conference will be a one-day event with the benefit of no overnight lodging needs for most attendees; room blocks will be carved out for those who want to stay nearby. Participants will be provided coffee, pastries, and lunch as well as a program packed with quality presentations and speakers.

“Bringing a conference like this into the middle of the battlefield is common sense,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Massachusetts was at the heart of the American Revolution, and Bay Staters — along with many of the New England states — have to fight for their independence from tyranny yet again. We’re proud to bring this event to the epicenter of an anti-gun haven and hope our programming will inspire and educate this generation of Second Amendment supporters.”

The cost to attend the New England Firearms Advocacy Conference is $25.00 and includes a one-year membership to CCRKBA.

For more information about the conference, visit https://ccrkba.org/fac/

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'Barack Hussein Obama'

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'In Texas, Republicans, and only Republicans, should select Republican nominees.'

It is a journalist’s duty to report the truth, yet so many news outlets covered themselves in shame by bowing and scraping to honor the “transgender identity” of the man who carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, was born a man and he died a man. He spent his last day on Earth killing his 39-year-old mother, his 11-year-old stepbrother, a 39-year-old teacher, three 12-year-old girls, and two boys, 12 and 13, before taking the coward’s way out and turning the gun on himself. He reportedly wounded about 25 others at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, and critically injured two more.

Initial reports on the shooting described Van Rootselaar as appearing female, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police erased all doubt Wednesday at a press conference.

“I can say that Jesse was born as a biological male who approximately six years ago began to transition to female and identified as female, both socially and publicly,” Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said.

I understand the impulse to treat people with respect when they claim to identify as the gender opposite their sex. Many consider it common courtesy to refer to a person by preferred pronouns, rather than insisting on biological truth. In some circles, it is a faux pas—if not sacrilege—to state the naked truth that a man is still a man, regardless of what gender he claims to adopt.

But, if ever there were a situation where common courtesy need not apply, it would be here.

Do you really want to extend “common courtesy” to a school shooter? Do you really want to say, “I know he slaughtered children, and his own mother, but we’ve got to be nice and call him a girl, now”?

For crying out loud, let’s stop this insane charade.

The vast majority of mass shooters are male, so the initial news reports that the shooter was a woman immediately invited skepticism.

When the RCMP’s update clarified that the shooter was really a man dressed up as a woman, every journalist following the story learned the truth. There is no excuse, at that point, for calling the shooter a woman or using female pronouns for him.

Yet, outlet after outlet did it.

News Outlets Gaslight Readers

CNN “reported” that “the suspect is an 18-year-old woman.” The very next sentence? “She was born biologically male and transitioned about six years ago, police said.” CNN also referred to the shooter as “an 18-year-old female resident of the town.”

The New York Times used female pronouns for the shooter, stating that “she killed her mother and stepbrother before fatally shooting several others, and later herself.”

The Associated Press merely referred to the shooter using female pronouns, without even disclosing to readers that police identified him as male.

Reuters’s headline ran, “Canadian police identify 18-year-old woman as suspect in mass school shooting.” Reuters did acknowledge that the shooter had been “born male,” but not until the eleventh paragraph, and only after describing Van Rootselaar as a “woman” and using female pronouns for him throughout.

USA Today acknowledged the transgender identity in the second paragraph of the story, but still used female pronouns for the shooter throughout.

Why the Pervasive Bias in Favor of the Shooter’s ‘Identity?’

Why did news outlets do this?

First, Deputy Commissioner McDonald set the stage for it by saying that police would refer to the shooter as a woman because the shooter had presented himself that way. Apparently, accuracy about biological sex takes a backseat to political correctness, even when it means honoring the ravings of a mass murderer.

Second, the Associated Press Stylebook, which many outlets use as a benchmark for how to report the news, has taken an aggressively pro-transgender activist position.

The stylebook urges journalists to “identify people as transgender only when relevant, and use the name by which they live publicly.” It recommends avoiding “mention of a person’s gender transition or gender-affirmation surgery in news coverage” unless “it is central to the story.” Why? Because this might be “intrusive and insensitive.”

This guidance helps explain why the Associated Press appears to have considered the shooter’s transgender identity irrelevant enough to be excised from the coverage entirely. The AP, you see, didn’t want to be “insensitive” to Mr. Van Rootselaar.

Forgive me if I don’t care about being insensitive toward a mass murderer.

The AP Stylebook goes out of its way to silence dissent against transgender orthodoxy. While the “guidance” on transgender issues is steeped in transgender ideology, it flatly declares that journalists should “not use the term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity as an ideology.”

The Daily Signal appreciates the clarity of the AP Stylebook on matters such as spelling protester with an “er,” but we emphatically reject its “guidance” on issues like this where it takes a leftist partisan stance.

A Reckoning on Transgender Insanity

This horrific shooting comes shortly after a jury ordered doctors to pay $2 million to a detransitioner who regretted having her breasts removed. It comes after the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended against transgender surgeries for minors, and even said the data doesn’t support hormones for minors.

The tide is turning against transgender orthodoxy, and this moment should shame news outlets into reconsidering their near-religious devotion to it.

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