by Chris Butler | Mar 31, 2021
A Georgia state senator this week responded to the newly-passed Senate Bill 202 voter reform measure with a bill of her own. Georgia State Sen. Sally Harrell (D-Atlanta) this week filed a bill that she said would give county election supervisors and local...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Ken Sondik Drop dead. That’s the Biden administration’s message to victims of criminal illegal immigrants in joint stipulations submitted to the Supreme Court this month. The stipulations dismiss petitions filed last year asking the court to...
by The Center Square | Mar 31, 2021
by Bethany Blankley More than 850 criminals have been encountered at the U.S. border with Mexico this year, including 92 sex offenders and 63 gang members, a U.S. Border Patrol agent tweeted this weekend. Included among “the copious amounts of groups being...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee RIO GRANDE VALLEY — The overcrowded Customs and Border Protection facility holding migrants in Donna, Texas, was not designed for long-term detention, National Border Patrol Council spokesman Chris Cabrera told the Daily Caller News...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Eric Lendrum As the debate regarding the future of the Senate filibuster heats up, a recent report has confirmed that the Democrats, who are now advocating for its abolition, utilized the procedural stalling tactic exponentially more times than the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Dion Pierre Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island will close its Confucius Institute, according to an announcement by President Ross Gittell. “After 15 years of values language and cultural programs provided through the Confucius Institute at...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Mary Rose Corkery Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday that a mileage tax won’t be included in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal. Buttigieg told CNN anchor Jake Tapper the tax is “not part of the conversation about this...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Andrew Kerr The World Health Organization dedicated a little over one page to dismissing the lab leak theory at the very end of its 123-page COVID-19 origins report, according to a draft copy obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The draft report...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Chuck Ross A Hong Kong-based think tank suspected of working as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party has cultivated close ties to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and members of the Congressional Black Caucus since 2014. The China-U.S....
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Catherine Mortensen A far-reaching plan by the Biden administration, in conjunction with private companies, to create a so-called coronavirus passport is raising privacy and transparency concerns from people of all political stripes. The plan could force...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 31, 2021
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 31, 2021
Georgia is on its way to repealing a centuries-old citizens arrest law that currently allows citizens of the Peach State to detain others if a crime is committed in their presence “or within their immediate knowledge.” Monday, HB 479 passed the Georgia Senate...
by Chris Butler | Mar 31, 2021
Georgia U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA-03) is co-sponsoring a bill that proposes to encourage businesses to head back to American shores. Ferguson said America needs this during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ferguson is co-sponsoring this bill, the Bring Back American...
by Chris Butler | Mar 30, 2021
A Georgia woman has admitted to creating a fake business and using it to receive funding from a federal COVID-19 small business relief program. This, according to a press release that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia published...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 30, 2021
by Edward Ring The advocacy group “Fair and Just Prosecution” says the goal of progressive criminal justice reform is to create “a justice system grounded in fairness, equity, compassion, and fiscal responsibility.” Starting around 2016, this movement picked up...
by Admin | Mar 30, 2021
by Kaley Leetaru RealClear Opinion Research recently conducted a poll about Biden’s first 100 days in office. One of the questions asked was how important it was to get the pandemic under control and public satisfaction with results to date. ...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 30, 2021
by Mckenna Dallmeyer After Duke University decided to end recruitment of freshmen by Greek and non-Greek selective living groups, nine fraternities decided to disaffiliate from the Interfraternity Council, and thus from the university itself. Duke University...
by Neil W. McCabe | Mar 30, 2021
President Ronald W. Reagan former advance and body man told the Star News Network he remembers where he was when he heard 40 years ago that President Ronald W. Reagan was shot. James F. “Jim” Kuhn said he first met Reagan in October 1975. “He was...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 30, 2021
by Corey DeAngelis Last week, Kentucky was the first state legislature to pass a new program to fund students instead of systems this year. The proposal, House Bill 563, would allow eligible students to access scholarships to use at approved private education...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 30, 2021
by Kevin Mooney Political activists who call for defunding police and ending what they call systemic racism used the banner of Black Lives Matter to raise tens of millions of dollars and launch a political action committee, according to the main...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 30, 2021
by Charles Lipson There is absolutely no crisis at the southern border, and Trump caused it. Also Trump wanted small children to die at the border. I don’t. That’s just another reason people say I’m a good person. Despite what you’ve heard, there is no surge of...