by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Rick Manning Congressional Democrats have introduced legislation that would add four more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, boosting the number of justices on the bench from nine to 13, as Democrat congressional leaders are going all-in on packing the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Ben Zeisloft President Joe Biden unveiled a new commission to explore the possibility of packing the Supreme Court. Although the commission does contain some constitutional originalists, it is heavily staffed by legal professors with revisionist views on the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Benjamin Zeisloft A leading medical journal terminated an editor who questioned the existence of structural racism. His fellow medical professors expressed approval of the firing. The American Medical Association wrote in a statement that it was “deeply...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Mary Margaret Olohan The governor of West Virginia signaled that he will not veto a bill banning biological males from women’s sports. Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice discussed HB 3293 during a coronavirus briefing Wednesday saying that he would...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Julie Kelly The freshly reelected Republican senator from Nebraska had kind words this week for Joe Biden’s intelligence chiefs. “The American people are blessed to have an [intelligence community] as serious as ours,” Senator Ben Sasse said during...
by The Center Square | Apr 19, 2021
by Bethany Blankley Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking them to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The cartels are bringing terror into Texas communities,...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang holds a commanding lead over his Democratic opponents in New York City’s mayoral race, according to a Thursday Data for Progress poll. The poll found Yang with 26%, double the support of Brooklyn...
by Bethany Bowman | Apr 19, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The Country Soul Duo, Exit 216 (named for the exit that takes drivers to Nashville International Airport) is the most diverse pair I have come across in country music. But what surprised me the most was their age difference. Born in...
by The Center Square | Apr 19, 2021
by Casey Harper Calls to defund the police have once again been thrust into the national spotlight after a string of high profile police shootings, but data show the rallying cry for police reformers may not hold water. After the death of Daunte Wright at the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 19, 2021
by Anthony Gockowski U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters made a brief appearance Saturday night outside a police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where crowds have gathered for seven consecutive nights to protest the shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright was killed last...