The State Department says it will consider providing gender dysphoria and gender transition care for diplomats and their children stationed overseas, stoking concerns in Congress that taxpayers will be responsible for funding sex change surgeries.
Publication: Washington Free Beacon
Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg’s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm
Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, joined KNP Communications as a senior consultant. In the press release announcing the hire, which declines to mention Chasten’s prominent husband, the firm boasted that it has “helped elect Democratic candidates to office at the national, state, and local level since 2006.”
The GOP Cavalry Arrives
On September 15, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida upended the electoral cycle by sending a plane of Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard. Suddenly, Democratic-friendly topics vanished from the headlines. The stunt was a public relations coup. It reset the national debate.
Air Force Academy Holds “Transgender Visibility” Seminar
Events of this nature are part of a wholesale push by the U.S. military to foster a more culturally inclusive environment. Critics say this type of training is part of a woke cultural agenda that is being mainstreamed by the Democratic Party’s far-left flank.
Air Force Teaches Cadets Not to Say Terrorist
The United States Air Force Academy is training its cadets to “use inclusive language” that bars them from calling people “terrorists” or using male and female identifiers, according to an official presentation being used by the elite military school and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Meet the Taxpayer-Funded Group Pushing Transgender Identity on Two-Year-Olds
Zero to Three, the nation’s top early childhood development organization, which has received more than $230 million in federal funds since 2008, claims that children as young as two years old can show signs of “transgender identity” and encourages educators to “use tenets of Critical Race Theory” when they work with newborns.
Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering U.S. Each Day
Border Patrol officers are logging roughly 8,000 migrant encounters a day, the highest daily number in U.S. history, the communications show. Such a massive surge in migrants has left agencies such as Customs and Border Protection scrambling to implement new processing systems.
Harvard Tells Students That Using Wrong Pronouns Constitutes Abuse
“Fatphobia” and “cisheterosexism” perpetuate “violence.” “Using the wrong pronouns” constitutes “abuse.” And “any words used to lower a person’s self-worth” are “Verbal Abuse.” Those are just a handful of the things the school told all undergraduate students in a mandatory Title IX training session, according to materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Fetterman’s Art Gallery Raises Questions Whether He’s a Friend of Israel
Fetterman’s Braddock Collective featured a notoriously anti-Israel art exhibit amplifying slanderous claim that Israel is “apartheid state.”
As Biden’s Climate Czar, John Kerry Has Flown More Than 180,000 Miles, Emitting 9.5 Million Pounds of Carbon
The Free Beacon reviewed 75 of Kerry’s official travel announcements from March 2021 to July 2022, which show Kerry has flown the equivalent of traveling around the world more than seven times to discuss climate change with world leaders. Planes on average produce 53.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile traveled.
How Raphael Warnock Dodges Income Taxes
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) has an unusual financial arrangement with an outside employer that allowed him to avoid income taxes on $89,000 in outside salary last year, according to tax experts.
Biden Administration Is Placing Vending Machines Filled with Drug Supplies in Rural Kentucky
The $3.6 million project will distribute syringes to country’s overdose “epicenter.”
Pfizer’s “No Whites Allowed” Fellowship Violates the Law
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offers a prestigious fellowship that bars whites and Asians from applying. Trumpeted on the company’s website as a “Bold Move” to “create a workplace for all,” civil rights lawyers are characterizing it in a different way: as a blatant violation of the law.
How Raphael Warnock Doubled His Income Since Joining the Senate
The Democrat from Georgia made over half a million dollars in 2021—from book deals, outside employers, and speaking fees.
Biden Brings a Butter Knife to an Iranian Gunfight
It’s tempting to view the U.S. airstrikes this week in Syria against an Iranian-aligned target with optimism. But who are we kidding? The airstrikes are not worth a warm bucket of spit.
A Majority of Americans Say the Border Crisis Is an “Invasion”
Results come as news outlets attempt to sanitize border crisis language.
Yes, We Will Question the Integrity of Our Federal Law Enforcement Officials
Since we learned of the unprecedented raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound last week, millions of Americans have questioned the political neutrality of the Department of Justice. Federal law enforcement is facing a legitimacy crisis—at least in the eyes of half the country—thanks to the fake and overhyped scandals it drummed up during the Trump years.
Dems Poised to Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Dept., FBI and Border Patrol Combined
Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act would more than double agency’s size.
NY Times Columnist Hosts Chinese Government Adviser in U.S.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last month hosted a delegation from a think tank helmed by a Chinese government adviser deeply enmeshed in Beijing’s propaganda operations. Friedman met in July with Wang Huiyao, the president of the Center for China and Globalization. Friedman also hosted the group at Planet Word, a Washington, D.C.-based language museum run by his wife, Ann.
CNN Chief’s Republican Apology Tour
GOP officials say they’re skeptical of Chris Licht’s pledge to tamp down on-air partisanship.
BLM Activist Shaun King Used Donor Funds to Buy $40K Dog
Shaun King’s social justice PAC is going to the dogs. Literally. Grassroots Law PAC, which the progressive grifter founded to elect soft-on-crime local officials, paid roughly $40,000 since December to the California-based Potrero Performance Dogs, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Pelosi Must Go (to Taiwan)
Canceling now would mean that Congress buckled in the face of Chinese threats and the Biden administration wavering. It would establish the principle that Beijing has veto power over the travel plans of senior U.S. officials. It would tell the world that America is more interested in mollifying Xi Jinping than in supporting the democratically elected Tsai Ing-wen.
Stacey Abrams Can’t Find a Georgia Cop Who Supports Her
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is out with a new ad that uses a “former deputy sheriff” to argue that Abrams’s opponent is making the state “less safe.” There’s just one problem: That officer never served in Georgia.
How Long Until Dems Storm the Capitol?
The party’s climate rhetoric is increasingly radical, dangerously insurrectionist.