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Leftists running school districts in many places across America have adopted some extremist ideas these days, including transgenderism – especially after the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration spent four years promoting it.

And sometimes they've used their positions to select materials that indoctrinate children with such ideologies. Sometimes they let parents opt their children out of what the families consider offensive material, but not always.

And in one of those cases, the Supreme Court now will intervene.

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One of the agendas for Joe Biden's administration was to push gun control.

His surrogates would erupt every time some criminal used a weapon to hurt someone with charges that gun control was the answer, that there would be no reduction in violence until the American public lost access to firearms.

One part of that agenda was his decision, through Merrick Garland, his attorney general, to order an in-depth analysis of how firearms enter illegal markets and get into the wrong hands, including Mexico drug cartels.

In a four-part series, it now has been released by the Department of Justice, covering "20 years of data."

It, Garland has claimed, is "vital to helping law enforcement nationwide solve crimes and take shooters off the street."

But it entirely ignores what many would consider the most egregious, the most offensive, the most awful gun-trafficking circumstances, when the Barack Obama administration actually delivered guns into the pipeline supplying Mexican drug gangs.

It is Judicial Watch, in its "Corruption Chronicles," that explains what has happened.

"In 2021 Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the same agency that orchestrated that fiasco, the ATF, to lead a drawn-out comprehensive study, known as National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA), aimed at curbing gun violence and illegal gun trafficking across the nation."

Those results, Garland claimed in a DOJ statement, represent "the most thorough research, analysis, and examination ever of firearms commerce and how firearms enter illegal markets and fall into the wrong hands."

Except for the fact it "conveniently omits Obama's disastrous Mexican gunrunning operation that let drug traffickers obtain U.S.-sold weapons."

That was run by the ATF and sent guns from the U.S. "to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels."

What actually happened was that federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons "which were used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona."

In the press release Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, "From conducting enhanced background checks to stopping firearms trafficking by cartels, the department has prioritized addressing the most significant drivers of violent crime and identifying emerging threats to our communities."

Fast and Furious isn't 'there.

It was, Judicial Watch reported, "a major scheme that illicitly sent firearms south of the border under the leadership of Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, who was cited for contempt by Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the botched operation."

Judicial Watch reported the part of the report addressing the southwest border "only reveals that firearms originating in the U.S. and recovered in Mexico between 2017 and 2021 represented 74% of all international crime guns traced to a purchaser."

"Further analysis indicates that transnational gun traffickers exploit the same criminal channels to divert firearms from legal commerce as domestic gun traffickers," the report finds.

"Judicial Watch obtained Justice Department documents showing that Fast and Furious weapons were widely used by members of major Mexican drug cartels, including Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel," the report said.

Eventually, 94 of the weapons unleashed by Obama were later found in Mexico City and 12 Mexican states.

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Joe Biden is taking full credit for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, even though his administration was unable to break through for a deal for a year, and the movement started only after President-elect Donald Trump suggested "hell to pay" should Hamas not start releasing hostage by the time he takes office Monday.

Biden called a question about whether Trump should be credited a "joke."

The Washington Examiner pointed out the "deal" involving Israel and Hamas was 15 months in the making after the terrorists from Gaza launched a war against Israel, killing 1,200 and kidnapping 250 in one day's attack.

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Joe Biden did a first-class job as president of the United States for the last four years, according to Joe Biden.

His comments came Monday in a foreign policy speech.

But the reality is just a little different, according to a critique of his comments published in Red State.

He first claimed that America now is much stronger than it was four years ago. And that its adversaries are weaker.

However, Red State documented, "Since Biden took office, China has grown the size of its military and expanded its political influence across the globe, from the South China Sea to Africa and even South America. As to Russia, one could argue their military resources have been depleted fighting Ukraine, but they are still currently invading Europe with no peace deal in sight."

It pointed out that only American adversary now weaker is Iran, and that's not because of Biden's policies, but despite them.

Biden also boasted of moving America out of Afghanistan, but he forgot to mention the terrorists that have come into America across his open southern border.

The critique said, "I would hardly call a Taliban-led state where men 'marry' and rape nine-year-olds while women can't go appear in public without a male escort a success. The human cost of Biden's disastrous withdrawal is unfathomable, from those who died during it to the millions who have experienced brutal oppression in the aftermath. "

Then there are the service members killed during that disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

And finally, he ignored the recent terrorism in New Orleans to claim global warming, or climate change has it's now known, is the "single greatest threat."

The critique explained, "There are far fewer deaths caused by natural disasters today than there were even a hundred years ago. The idea that 'climate change' is the 'single greatest existential threat to humanity' is simply a lie, and it becomes far more grotesque when you consider Biden is saying that to obfuscate his failures. Why take responsibility for anything when you can just blame the sky idol of 'climate change' for every policy failure?"

Biden's actual legacy? "Biden has been arguably the most destructive president in modern history, with only President Jimmy Carter giving him any competition."

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A longtime adviser to President-elect Donald Trump is blaming nonsensical, "radical" policies of the Green New Deal for this week's catastrophic fires across Southern California.

Former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the former House Intelligence Committee chairman, appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, where host Maria Bartiromo asked him point blank:

"So you're saying as a result of the Green New Deal, as a result of the climate change agenda of the Democrats and the Biden administration and the Gavin Newsom administration, they stopped logging? They stopped the farmers from allowing the animals to graze, and they stopped storing water because of the climate change agenda?"

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The judicial system in the state of New York once was "considered the premier legal system in the country."

Not anymore, according to constitutional expert "Jonathan Turley, a Fox contributor and Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

He cited the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday on wild business records claims by Juan Merchan, a sentence of no jail or probation or fines under a "discharge" standard.

"With the sentencing of Donald Trump on Friday, the final verdict on the New York criminal trial of the president-elect is in. The verdict is not the one that led to no jail or probation for the incoming president. Acting Justice Juan Merchan has brought down the gavel on the New York legal system as a whole," Turley explained.

"Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes.

"Trump will walk away from this trial and into the White House in less than two weeks, but the New York system will walk into infamy after this day. The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN's senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total 'b—s–t.'"

He explained the New York system was unable to "handle the truth."

It was a "case based on a non-crime. DA Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory," he explained.

In fact, Bragg, who campaigned for office on the idea of prosecuting Trump, for something, anything, claimed that a "long-dead misdemeanor" actually was a live felony "by using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried."

Then the judge, who has been known to financially support Democrats, and whose daughter was raising money for Democrats off her father's courtroom rulings against Trump, joined in.

Merchan "not only allowed those charges to be brought to trial but then added layers of reversible errors in the effort to bag Trump at any cost," Turley explained.

In the court of public opinion, the New York agenda failed, as Trump got 3.6 million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election.

"Many polls showed that the public saw the Manhattan criminal case for what it was: raw lawfare targeting a leading political opponent. The election itself felt like the largest verdict in history as citizens rejected the political, legal and media establishments in one of our nation's most historic elections," Turley explained.

He said the state system still has a chance to redeem itself, but few "are holding their breath."

It still could toss James's "equally absurd civil lawsuit against Trump. Despite judges expressing skepticism over Engoron's use of a law to impose a grotesque $455 million in fines and interest, we are still waiting for a decision."

He said the Merchan agenda now will end up before the Supreme Court itself, after the judge's "lack of seriousness in the case" was on display.

In the case, Bragg claimed business reporting errata by Trump's companies amounted to felonies, even though they ordinarily would have been misdemeanors for which the statute of limitations had expired.

Bragg said they were felonies because they were in pursuit of some other, unidentified, crime. In fact, jurors failed to identify that crime, and Merchan inexplicably said their verdict didn't have to be unanimous in the case that was just one prong of Democrats' multi-jurisdiction lawfare campaign, a failed effort to use various created civil and criminal cases to keep him from running for president again..

Bragg brought to court, and Merchan allowed, salacious testimony from a former porn star and a discredited lawyer in order to convince jurors in the leftist enclave of Manhattan, which repeatedly has voted by vast majorities against Trump, to convict Trump of 34 counts.

The issue was that Trump's lawyer paid the porn star for silence about an alleged affair both denied happened. The payments made to the lawyer were labeled as legal expenses.

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PALM BEACH, Florida – President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he's going to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

At a news conference from his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said: "We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring.

"That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. And it's appropriate. It's appropriate."

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Joe Biden, who describes himself as a devout Catholic, cursed at reporters for asking about his age during an event over the weekend.

"My being the oldest president, I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole g*****n life," Biden snapped.

(Editor's warning: Please be aware of Biden's offensive profanity below:)

"Biden is supposedly a devout Catholic. What sort of a devout Catholic would intentionally use God's name in vain? Or for that matter, what sort of devout Catholic would support late-term abortions or allow his Justice Dept. to recruit priests to spy on their parishioners?" Starnes pointed out.

"Of course, this is the same devout Catholic who repeatedly referred to the 'palmists' who wrote the Old Testament book of 'Palms.' In the Baptist faith tradition, we call that particular part of the Bible, the 'Psalms,'" he said.

Further, "Just last week the oldest-serving American president called on President Trump to embrace decency in the Oval Office. And a few days later he's using God's name in vain."

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When the history books start discussing Joe Biden's presidency, there will be no lack of blunders to mention. Afghanistan, inflation, the border, transgenderism for all, abortion, making taxpayers pay for student loans they didn't take out.

But as 2024 drew to a close, a report in the Washington Stand identified the biggest three issues that stand out from the pack as Biden's biggest blunders as president — the issues that turned the greatest number of Americans against him.

Washington Stand senior writer Joshua Arnold explained that Biden "careened from one crisis to the next" during his time in the White House, which ends in just days.

That cost him "the trust of the American people."

First among the biggest is Biden's foreign policy, highlighted by his disastrous withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

Biden ordered that "despite warnings from his advisors of the consequences that might follow such a decision. Without U.S. support, the democratic government in Afghanistan quickly folded to the aggression of Taliban militias. As a result, the Taliban captured $83 billion worth of U.S. military equipment, and a suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. servicemembers at the Kabul airport before the evacuation was completed."

Biden actually "threw away" 20 years of opposition to the Taliban and left the terror-linked organization "stronger than ever."

Catastrophically, he had America abandon local allies and even left behind America citizens there "with no way home."

Biden's second big blunder category was the economy.

"When President Biden assumed office, Congress had already passed multiple stimulus packages totaling trillions of dollars during the mandatory shutdowns in response to COVID-19. As a result, the Consumer Price Index inflation rate rose from 1.4% in January 2021 to 5.4% in June 2021. By this point, it should have been obvious that the U.S. government needed to take immediate, corrective action," the report said.

"However, at that point, Biden was asking Congress to pass another $4 trillion worth of spending on a progressive wish list. So, in June 2021 Biden claimed that inflation was 'transitory' and that 'no serious economist' thought unchecked inflation was on the way. Biden only convinced Congress — then controlled by his own party — to spend about half that amount, broken into separate bills."

The result was that Biden's inflation peaked at 9.1% in July 2022, and over his term, his inflation is continuing even now to cost consumers more than 20% for the same products and services as before he was elected.

He even resorted to "falsehoods" that inflation was 9% when he took office, which even leftists were unable to ignore. Actually, inflation was below 2% when he took office.

Third was immigration.

"When President Biden took office, he rescinded Trump administration policies that had effectively slowed the number of illegal border crossings down to a trickle — most notably a policy allowing for expedited deportation of migrants with no legitimate asylum claim and a policy requiring migrants to remain in Mexico while their asylum claims were adjudicated. These policy changes inspired more foreigners — not only from Latin America but from all over the world — to make the dangerous journey to America's southern border. Illegal border crossings surged to unheard-of levels: 3.2 million in FY 2023, 2.9 million in FY 2024, and a sum total of more than eight million encounters during Biden's four years in office, besides 1.7 million known 'gotaways,'" the report said.

In fact, the Biden administration's schemes to address the entry of illegal aliens actually brought them into the country "faster."

Among the problems that developed was the entry of suspected terrorists and criminal gangs that actually are now trafficking children "to force them into prostitution."

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Wonder about how Americans felt during the last year of Joe Biden's term in the White House.

This would be the year when the administration pushed its pro-transgender and pro-abortion agendas to their highest level, when Christians over and over were jailed for praying outside abortion businesses, and after they'd already seen the Afghanistan disaster, an invasion of illegal aliens, and inflation of some 20%.

One revealing indicator is the "most popular" Bible verse for people during the year.