A damning new government report confirms what many conservatives have long suspected: The Biden administration systematically weaponized federal law to target, harass, and even imprison pro-life Americans, all while turning a blind eye to violence against churches and pregnancy centers.

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy released the report on April 14, exposing how President Joe Biden’s DOJ abused the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act—known as the FACE Act—to prosecute pro-life activists at the urging of powerful abortion lobby groups. Every American who cares about equal and impartial justice under the law should read it.

In the end, the report leads irrevocably to one conclusion: The FACE Act should be repealed.

Congress passed the FACE Act in 1994 to protect abortion facilities, pro-life pregnancy centers, and churches from obstruction, force, and destruction. On paper, it applies equally to three. In practice, under Biden, it became something else entirely: a federal hunting license to punish political opponents holding pro-life views.

The numbers tell the story. According to the report, over the law’s 30-year history, a staggering 25% of all FACE Act prosecutions were brought in just a two-year stretch (2022-2024) under the Biden administration. Even more striking, pro-lifers were the targets a remarkable 97% of the time.

This wasn’t a coincidence but federal policy.

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization returned abortion policy to the states, Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly vowed to “tirelessly protect and advance reproductive freedom” and deploy the FACE Act to do it.

Garland revived the National Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers and set it loose. What followed was a coordinated campaign between federal prosecutors and pro-abortion organizations that should alarm every American who believes in impartial law enforcement.

The task force worked hand in glove with the National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood, and the Feminist Majority Foundation. It received tips, dossiers, and investigation targets from these activist groups. The National Abortion Federation was singled out by task force members as an “MVP” for supplying information used to identify targets and obtain warrants. One task force member even served as a reference on NAF’s application for a private grant.

The report also details highly disturbing conduct by prosecutors once prosecutions of pro-life activists were underway.

In Michigan, DOJ officials pushed to prosecute nonviolent pro-life protesters under the FACE Act, something those officials acknowledged was unprecedented. Internal emails show federal prosecutors acknowledging the “posture of the administration” had shifted, however, driven in part by the passage in 2021 of Texas’ Heartbeat Act. The prosecution was greenlighted in May 2022, just days after the Dobbs draft opinion leaked.

After the defendants had already been convicted of misdemeanor trespassing in state court and paid a $225 fine, DOJ officials took the unusual step of insisting upon federal prosecution because the activists would “continue to engage in obstructive conduct” due to their “strongly held ideologies.”

In other words, the DOJ concluded that the only way to deter committed pro-life activists from engaging in pro-life activism was to throw them in prison.

At trial, prosecutors fretted about a “very Catholic magistrate” judge and worked to screen Christians from the jury pool. In a private email drafting her closing argument, a DOJ prosecutor described pro-life Christians as “culty.”

This kind of comment shows that these were not impartial law enforcement officers but enforcers of leftist ideology.

The FACE Act has always rested on shaky constitutional grounds, relying on Congress’ interstate commerce power to regulate what are fundamentally local protests—conduct already covered by state and local trespass and vandalism laws. Biden’s DOJ simply revealed what the law was always susceptible to becoming: a political cudgel.

The report makes the case for repealing the FACE Act or limiting its application to churches.

Unlike abortion, the right to free exercise of religion is an expressly protected constitutional right. Moreover, state law more than adequately protects against criminal trespassing, vandalism, and true acts of violence. The FACE Act is not a necessary preventative, and as long as it remains on the books in its current form, it will remain a temptation for future administrations to exploit for partisan ends.

More broadly, this report is a warning. The rule of law is not an abstraction reserved for law school classrooms. It is, as John Adams wrote, the very foundation of a republic—“an Empire of Laws, and not of Men.” When prosecutors swear an oath to the Constitution and then use the power of the federal government to destroy their political opponents, that foundation cracks.

The Biden DOJ cracked it. The American people deserve to know exactly how, and now it must make sure this kind of abuse never happens again.

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April 20 (UPI) — Actor and producer Patrick Muldoon has died at age 57.

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NEW YORK, NY — In a bold new effort to address what he referred to as "run inequality," Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered that a percentage of runs scored by each visiting MLB team be redistributed to the struggling New York Mets.

Monday on ABC's "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Donald Trump was preparing to implement a draft for his military operation in Iran.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer D4vd has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago and whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in September in his apparently abandoned Tesla, prosecutors said Monday.

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President Donald Trump's United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is actively re-vetting migrants awarded green cards, asylum, and other benefits under former President Joe Biden, the agency's director confirmed.

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Top Republican political consultants are flying into Washington to meet with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and President Donald Trump’s political operative James Blair as the White House gears up for the midterms.

As first reported by Politico, the group will meet Monday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel—formerly the Trump International Hotel—in Washington, D.C.

The players will prepare for a challenging midterm cycle as the administration faces continued heat for its military operation in Iran and the impact it has had on the economy. The national average for gas prices is $4.042, according to AAA, nearly a $1 increase year-over-year.

Wiles and Blair are bringing the political consultants from across the country to share data and strategy and plan how to best support congressional candidates, a person familiar with the meeting told Politico.

As a prerequisite to Monday’s meeting, Wiles and Blair met with Trump Cabinet officials in February to strategize how to sell the White House’s agenda. Recent polling from The New York Times shows the president’s approval rating sitting at 40% while his disapproval rating is at 56%.

They are also seeking to hold on to a slim majority in the House of just 218-213.

Wiles previously served as Trump’s co-campaign manager in 2024 and, upon his election to the presidency, was appointed to serve as the first female White House chief of staff.

Blair, who played a key role in Trump’s 2024 win, recently—and temporarily—moved from his position as White House deputy chief of staff to lead the president’s outside political operation. The super PAC MAGA Inc. reportedly has a war chest of more than $300 million that could be used in the midterms. Blair and MAGA Inc. have not yet announced the group’s spending plan.

Trump announced Blair’s “short leave of absence” on Truth Social, saying he will “lead the charge from the outside against the Radical Left, Country Destroying Democrats.”

In a similar meeting last week, Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, at the White House. The trio discussed Republicans’ midterm strategy and candidate recruitment, someone familiar with the meeting told The Daily Signal.

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April is National Financial Literacy Month, when the federal government and many states encourage citizens to become more financially literate. Unfortunately, many today lack a basic knowledge of economics, to our nation’s detriment. 

Across the country, states are starting to mandate that students take a personal finance course to graduate high school, often in place of economics courses. In 2022, only 23 states required students to take a financial literacy class in order to graduate; by 2026, that number had rocketed to 39 states.

Meanwhile, only 22 states now mandate the same for economics classes, a number that seems to decline each year.  

Some argue that financial literacy is a more practical subject than economics. With limited classroom time available, who doesn’t support teaching the life skills of budgeting, borrowing, and investing?  

While the goal is admirable, the method is not. Positioning financial literacy as something separate from—or even more important than—economics misunderstands what financial literacy actually is and sets up students for failure. 

Financial literacy is not a standalone subject; it is actually applied economics.  

While economics has a bad reputation for being complicated and irrelevant, at its heart, economics is simply the study of choices. This means that economics is the basis for all decisions we make in our lives: financial, civic, and even personal.  

Every decision we face—whether to rent or buy a home, when to pay down debt or invest, whether to accept a job offer—requires the analytical tools that economics provides such as opportunity cost, marginal thinking, time value of money, incentive structures, risk and return. Teaching financial literacy stripped of economics leaves students with little more than a collection of rules lacking the reasoning to apply them. 

Research on financial education has consistently found that only teaching students “rules” produces modest, short-lived behavioral change. Students learn the rule, and pass the assessment, but within months the knowledge has faded. This is because it was never anchored to a conceptual framework, like economics.  

Practically, you can’t teach about the stock market and how stock prices change without using the idea of markets and prices. Or, why home, auto, and other loan rates change without understanding the role the Federal Reserve plays in maintaining stable prices and employment. Students won’t be able to make spending and saving decisions absent an understanding of the costs and benefits of these choices. 

My organization, the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), identifies five Economic Reasoning Propositions that are the engine beneath every personal finance decision: people choose; choices involve costs; people respond to incentives; institutions shape choices; and sound decisions are grounded in evidence.  

These are the specific cognitive tools a person needs to evaluate a mortgage, resist a high-interest credit offer, or understand why a “free” financial product is never actually free. Financial literacy without these tools is navigation without a compass. 

I have observed this pattern consistently over my teaching career at university and K-12 levels. Students who arrive in personal finance courses with even a basic grounding in economic reasoning—an understanding of trade-offs, incentives, and the concept of scarcity—absorb and retain financial concepts far more effectively than those encountering them cold.

The students who struggle are not those who lack exposure to budget worksheets. They are the ones who have never learned to think about decisions the way an economist does. 

To be clear: none of this is an argument against financial literacy education. Instead, it’s an argument for doing it right.  

The most effective programs integrate economic reasoning as the connective tissue that makes financial concepts coherent and transferable. Teaching how interest rates work is financial literacy. Teaching why central banks adjust them, how those decisions flow through to mortgage markets, and how a household should respond is economics and financial literacy working together. 

Sound financial decision-making necessitates a capacity for reasoned judgment under uncertainty, built on a foundation of economic principles. Students deserve that foundation, and we can’t provide it by treating financial literacy as a standalone subject. If students are ever to make sense of the rapidly changing world around them, they need the economic way of thinking as a grounding.

This Financial Literacy Month, we should focus on keeping basic economics in the classroom, for our students’ (and nation’s) economic future. 

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"There is a storm in our nation" according to Democrat Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who called for a release of foot soldiers to fight the "darkness and wind" during an address at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus Legacy Luncheon, seemingly dismissing the need for help from God.

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In the next few days, much more about the overall investigative review underway in Florida will likely begin to surface.  The review has been led by USAO Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida. Quinones is now supported by Counsel to the AG, Joe diGenova. As with all investigations […]

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A comprehensive analysis has found that major online news aggregators including Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft Bing News overwhelmingly feature content from left-leaning media outlets, while almost completely excludinng right-leaning outlets.

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