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- Tonight, President Biden will address a joint session of Congress and the American people to convince voters that his many failures are actually successes. Don’t buy it.
- Here’s what you can expect to hear from Biden tonight—and the hard truths he will continue to ignore: First, he’s sure to deflect on his role in creating the border crisis.
- We also know President Biden will try to convince Americans that “Bidenomics” is working, the crime and decay in our cities is nothing to be concerned about, and the military is strong. Lastly, President Biden will try to convince you that Republicans are an existential threat to our democracy.
- Instead of taking responsibility for his own dismal record, Mr. Biden will desperately attempt to rewrite history while using the federal government against his rivals. Biden is living in a state of delusion while the rest of us live in reality—far worse off than we were when he took office.
- No matter what he says in front of Congress this week, the real state of his union is weak, woke, and weaponized against those who dare to speak out.
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- The State Department just released its 2023 Annual Report on Engaging at Home, highlighting “the many ways our diplomats connected with Americans from all 50 states.”
- Out of 1,400 events held with “civil society groups, the private sector, state and local governments, community organizations, and students,” the report shows that “senior officials” went to only 40 of the 50 states.
- Of the 10 states not visited, nine of them – Arkansas, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming – voted Republican in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
- The State Department’s choice to highlight visits to regions and institutions that lean to the left could be perceived by aspiring diplomats as an inherent bias that is not “inclusive” of conservative Americans.
- If the Department insists on spending public money on domestic outreach, it should do so in a way that captures diversity not only of race but of geography and political viewpoint.
- Congress should address this by mandating via the appropriations process that domestic outreach be done with political neutrality or not at all.
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- In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, the French parliament has just enshrined a “right” to abortion in the nation’s constitution. It is the first country in the world to do so.
- The push to make abortion a constitutional right was a direct response to the United States Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022.
- What happened in France could kick-start a domino effect of more countries enshrining abortion in their constitutions. We see abortion activists already following this playbook in U.S. states as pro-lifers have lost multiple ballot initiatives post-Dobbs, with states enshrining abortion in their constitutions.
- First with the abortion pill and now first with a nationwide constitutional protection for abortion, France has been innovative and groundbreaking in all the wrong ways.
- Let’s hope that pro-lifers here in America, and across the world, see this latest stunt for what it is: a warning shot that pro-abortion forces are loud, proud, and coming for your constitution…wherever you are.
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