In a recent essay, I argue that America’s political division is so severe that the United States should consider a peaceful split into two sovereign nations joined in a cooperative […]

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Elite Survival’s $70 Sentinel Sling Pack delivers discreet off-body CCW carry that blends in—but off-body carry still comes with tradeoffs you need to understand.

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Michigan’s House passed a bill allowing bow hunters to carry a pistol for self-defense without a CPL, correcting a long-standing and illogical restriction.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas is seeking to prevent Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers.

“Most people understand that you can’t discriminate against a foreign worker, but they don’t understand that American workers could constitute a national origin,” said Lucas, who oversees the federal government’s employment discrimination agency. “It’s one of those things where discrimination is happening in plain sight, and people just don’t understand their rights.”

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the law that established the EEOC, bars discriminatory job advertisements that say the employer prefers or requires applicants from a particular country. Lucas said she will come out with a provision soon “clamping down” on job ads that exclude Americans.

“I think it’s rampant,” she told The Daily Signal. “I think that there is a really, really big problem, and it’s another example of where, because there’s just been lopsided discussion about what the law covers.”

For instance, Apple had to pay a $25 million settlement in 2023 after it was found that the tech giant required paper applications for positions it wanted to go to foreign workers, and the company did not advertise them on its own job website.

“It’s one of those things where discrimination is happening in plain sight, and people just don’t understand their rights,” she continued. “So we’re really trying to push back and educate people.”

The commission is part of a whole-government effort led by the Department of Labor called “Project Firewall,” to fight H1-B visa abuses.

“American workers are the centerpiece of President Trump’s agenda and protecting all Americans from the right to be free from discrimination,” she said, “and that includes when companies want to prefer foreign workers.”

Cases of discrimination against foreign workers occur in every industry, she said.

“We see it when a company that might have been launched in another country, comes to our country and decides to open locations here,” she said. “They may not realize that it’s not acceptable to have all of their executives or most of their employees be from their home country.”

“That’s unlawful. We see it in farm workers or frontline workers where people will try to segregate workplaces and only hire Hispanic workers, perhaps because they think that they’re going to be either illegal aliens or monolingual and therefore more vulnerable,” she continued. “It can come up in really almost every workplace from really white collar tech companies to frontline service industries, manufacturing.”

Lucas is interested in protecting workers in all of these situations.

Several previous administrations have investigated worker discrimination, but Lucas believes they’ve only scratched the surface.

“Thus far we’ve had a couple, with a one big million-plus dollar recovery for something that was launched in the Biden administration and then came to fruition in the Trump administration involving preference for Japanese chefs in a location in Guam, and American workers were harmed there,” Lucas said.

“You see bits and pieces, but I think the level of H-1B-related enforcement, we’re really just scratching the surface,” she continued. “There’s a lot more to be done, and I’m really encouraged by the whole of government effort that Project Firewall involves.”

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The first-ever Israeli Olympic bobsled team had equipment, passports, and thousands of dollars of items stolen after the apartment where they were staying while training was robbed, the team revealed Saturday.

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The six people killed in a fiery plane crash in Maine were flying to France’s Champagne region to scope out the next travel destination for high-net-worth […]

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A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal.

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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Tuesday that a racially diverse array of Americans support requiring photo identification to vote, despite Democratic claims that the requirement is racist. While […]

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A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism—those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” long referred to as the “disorder” of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man.

During the 2020 presidential race, then-candidate Joe Biden tweeted, “Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” As president in 2023, Biden followed up by stating, “Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know.” That same year, the transgender fad achieved unprecedented reach among impressionable youngsters: While Gallup reported that (an already-high) 7% of all Americans identified as LGBTQ+, that number soared to 20% of all Gen Z—and as high as 38% on some elite Ivy League campuses.

But the social craze began to face setbacks. In the U.K., the National Health Service’s Cass Review cast substantial doubt on the underlying scientific evidence purporting to support “gender-affirming care.”

Enterprising investigative journalists, such as Christopher F. Rufo, began to expose rampant ethical concerns with America’s gender clinics. Polling began to reflect broader concerns with the transgender narrative on issues such as women’s athletic competition.

President Donald Trump, intuiting that law can shape culture just as culture can shape law, signed numerous transgender-related executive orders in the first few weeks of his second term.

Now, it seems the dam may be breaking.

In a landmark legal judgment on Jan. 30, a 22-year-old biological woman named Fox Varian was awarded $2 million in Westchester County Supreme Court. Varian, a “detransitioner,” had an irreversible double mastectomy when she was 16 years old. The New York court held her psychologist and surgeon liable for $1.6 million for past and future suffering, and an additional $400,00 for any future medical expenses.

Varian, whose mother initially opposed the operation but consented following the surgeon’s “emphatic” insistence, became deeply depressed following the procedure. Now, she has become the first “detransitioner” to win a medical malpractice lawsuit at trial.

The message out of Westchester County is clear: Doctors and psychologists are now potentially on the hook for irrevocable mutilation of patients in the name of gender ideology.

The response has been swift. On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons became the first major medical association to recommend that transgender “surgeries” be delayed until a patient is at least 19 years old. Immediately, the American Medical Association, in a statement to National Review, reversed its previous enthusiasm for teenage “gender-affirming care”: The AMA now “agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.” On Thursday, the American Academy of Pediatrics followed suit: “The guidance from the (AAP) for health care for young people with gender dysphoria does not include a blanket recommendation for surgery for minors.”

Transgenderism is having a tough time on the legal front as well.

In United States v. Skrmetti, a 6-3 Supreme Court majority held that Tennessee’s comprehensive ban on transgender-related medical procedures passes constitutional muster.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, one of the more centrist Republican-nominated jurists, went out of her way to argue in a concurring opinion that transgender-identifying individuals do not constitute a “suspect class” or “discrete and insular minority,” in the court’s Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudential jargon, such that heightened judicial scrutiny is required.

This term at the high court, Idaho and West Virginia recently defended their own laws that prohibit biological males from competing in women’s sports; most court-watchers expect the two states to prevail.

The fundamental problem for transgender activists was always easy to spot: Transgenderism is premised on a lie, and in the long run the truth has a stubborn tendency to prevail. We know from the biological truth of sexual dimorphism, the chromosomal truth of dichotomous XX and XY structure, the biblical truth that “God created man in His image … male and female He created them,” millennia of unquestioned human experience, and basic common sense that there are precisely two sexes. That is not to deny that there are intersex, or androgynous, individuals—there are, and there always have been. And that is not to deny the very real psychological malady of gender dysphoria.

But one cannot change his or her sex by subjectively identifying as such or by subjecting oneself to either hormonal treatments or a surgeon’s knife. It is simply not possible. And the notion that it ever was possible, advanced by so many cultural and societal elites for so many years, was always going to end in pain, suffering, massive legal liability, and the desecration of the Hippocratic Oath-based medical profession itself.

Clicks and fads may sometimes rule the day, but the truth is eternal. Kudos to the American people for beginning to realign political, legal, and social mores with the truth.

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France's former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation.

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Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong used a pre-Super Bowl party to publicly excoriate ICE agents and advise them to "quit your shitty jobs" before President Donald Trump and his administration "drop you like a bad habit."

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Border czar Tom Homan told reporters that over 150 people had been arrested for trying to thwart United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The deployment of hundreds of law […]

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Far-left anarchist terrorists are suspected of a string of apparently coordinated sabotage attacks on Italian railway lines amid the opening of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.

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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s upcoming memoir details the devastation he experienced recounting his mother’s assisted suicide, despite his approval of a recent law allowing terminally ill Californians to end […]

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Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it.

It works like this: local governments or activist groups file a lawsuit against oil and gas companies, claiming that the burning of fossil fuels impacts the climate, and these impacts negatively harmed people. Activist lawyers bring cases in state courts that are more likely to rule in their favor, and—presto!—you’ve got a “carbon tax” imposed on oil and gas companies without needing a vote in Congress.

Don’t take my word for it. David Bookbinder, who served as part of the legal team representing the left-leaning city and county of Boulder in suing oil companies, described the climate lawfare as “an indirect carbon tax.”

“Tort liability is an indirect carbon tax,” Bookbinder said on a Federalist Society panel in October. “You sue an oil company, an oil company is liable. The oil company then passes that liability on to the people who are buying its products.”

Tellingly, he added, “I’d prefer an actual carbon tax, but if we can’t get one of those… this is a rather, somewhat convoluted way, to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”

The thing is, the law isn’t supposed to work that way.

Problems With the Argument

It’s hard to overstate just how baseless this cockamamie legal argument is.

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Carlos Samour Jr., an appointee of Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper, put it well in a dissent when the Colorado Supreme Court allowed Boulder’s lawsuit against Suncor Energy companies and Exxon-Mobil to go forward.

Samour noted that the court essentially “gives Boulder, Colorado, the green light to act as its own republic.” Why? Because applying Colorado state law to award damages for the companies’ burning of fossil fuels “will both effectively regulate interstate air pollution and have more than an incidental effect on foreign affairs.”

So, why did the Colorado Supreme Court rule this way?

The law has long treated interstate air pollution as an inherently federal concern under federal common law, but when Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, that displaced federal common law. Since the Clean Air Act did not “preempt” Colorado from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, the court ruled that state laws may award damages for greenhouse gas pollution.

Yet Samour noted that “state law has historically been incompetent to address claims seeking redress for interstate and international air pollution.”

“Unlike the Blue Fairy that brought Pinocchio to life, the [Clean Air Act] did not magically breathe life into state-law tort claims that had been as lifeless as a wooden puppet,” the justice added.

Potential Fallout

Boulder cannot prove that a specific oil sale from Suncor had a specific impact on the global climate, which in turn caused a specific harm to Boulder. Instead, the case relies on the “consensus” that the burning of fossil fuels harms the climate—prediction models have failed to demonstrate exactly how—and that somehow this vague impact connects to depriving people of “the right to use and enjoy public property, spaces, parks, and ecosystems,” along with “the right to safe and unobstructed travel.”

Naturally, Boulder seems unconcerned about what a settlement in this case would do to Americans’ right to “safe and unobstructed travel.”

If Boulder wins this case, the fallout could be disastrous.

Bookbinder, who represented Boulder, stated that if a lawsuit like this succeeds, that will lead nearly “every jurisdiction in California” to sue the oil companies, and then “every defendant in all these cases immediately declares bankruptcy.”

Todd Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, noted at a Civitas Institute panel Thursday that “any community in America could sue any of these companies, and why stop at the power companies?” Communities could sue airlines, truck drivers, even Americans who drive.

I can imagine few obstructions of travel quite so obnoxious as a court determining that you could be sued just for turning on your combustion engine.

The Supreme Court’s Opportunity

Suncor Energy has appealed the case to the Supreme Court, presenting a golden opportunity for clarification.

Since Suncor asked the court to take the case in August, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief asking for review, as have 26 states and 103 members of Congress led by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris put it well in writing that the United States has “a substantial interest” in whether Boulder can “apply one state’s law to the activities of energy companies around the world to hold those companies liable for injuries allegedly caused by global climate change.”

As Harris’ brief notes, the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling conflicts with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down New York’s case against Chevron in 2021.

The Supreme Court denied review in two cases where Honolulu, Hawaii, sought to punish Sunoco and Shell for alleged climate impacts. In June 2024, the Biden administration—which had significant ties to climate activist groups—urged the justices to deny review of those cases.

Here’s hoping Suncor succeeds where Shell and Sunoco did not.

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By James Fite

The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Donald Trump yet another win on Friday, February 6. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the immigration ruling a “crucial legal victory” on Saturday. “The Fifth Circuit just held illegal aliens can rightfully be detained without bond – a significant blow against activist judges who have been […]

Heavily armed authorities are swarming Tyler Robinson’s pre-trial court proceedings in Utah as he stands accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Law enforcement officials deployed bomb-detecting dogs, stationed rooftop snipers, […]

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