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For decades, many society influencers have touted the idea that the path to happiness for women is to be a career-minded professional with corporate titles and accolades, a platinum card and an absence of preschool, play-date and baby-sitting responsibilities.

That might work for some, but a new survey shows that more married women with children report being "very happy" than those unmarried without.

The survey by the Institute for Family Studies has found that 19% of married women with children report being very happy. That beats all other categories, including married without children at 11%, unmarried with children at 13% and unmarried without children at 10%.

The survey reported, "Married women are also more likely than unmarried women to say that life was enjoyable most or all of the time: 47% of married mothers and 43% of married childless women say life is enjoyable, compared to 40% of unmarried mothers and 34% of unmarried childless women."

The survey was done by Jean M. Twenge, Jenet Erickson, Wendy Wang, and Brad Wilcox, and Twenge wrote of her own decisions about marriage and children.

Then she explained, "These findings are not a one-off. Well-respected sources, such as the General Social Survey, show the same result; married mothers and fathers in that survey were more likely to report being 'very happy' than unmarried people and those without children. Another recent study found that married or partnered mothers are less likely to frequently feel depressed or anxious than people in the other three groups.

"Could it be not that marriage produces happiness, but that the causation goes the other way—that happier people are more likely to marry? One study controlled for premarital happiness levels and still found that marriage results in happier people and a less intense dip in life satisfaction at middle age.

"That's not to say the roles of wife and mother don't have their challenges. Roughly two-thirds of mothers in our survey, for example, said that they felt overwhelmed each day (though so did more than half of nonmothers). About six in 10 mothers said that they wished they had more time to themselves, compared with about four out of 10 childless women."

She noted, "Why, then, are mothers happier? The reasons speak to the profound experience of parenthood. Married mothers were the most likely to agree that their life 'has a clear sense of purpose' (28 percent), followed closely by unmarried mothers (25 percent). Only approximately 15 percent of women without children agreed. Mothers were also more likely than nonmothers to agree that their life 'feels meaningful' all or most of the time.

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Members of the federal judiciary, in a number of instances since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, have adopted political positions in their rulings.

Judges at the federal court system's entry level, district courts, have claimed the authority to order the nation's international affairs, financial affairs, DEI ideologies, expenditures, and more, many of which fall directly inside the president's responsibilities under the Constitution.

And now they are complaining the Supreme Court "doesn't have our backs."

A DOJ official confirmed, "Judge Boasberg first tried to persuade Chief Justice Roberts and other federal judges that the Trump administration would not follow court orders, despite having no basis for his belief. Then he acted on his baseless belief again and again in litigation over which he was presiding. Judge Boasberg violated the Canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, including the requirement that he 'promote public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.'"

WorldNetDaily has reported it was the Federalist that obtained access to comments Boasberg made at a recent judicial conference undermining the president.

He disparaged the president, even though he's required to be neutral on issues and people in his court, where Trump is a defendant in a number of cases brought by activists trying to undermine his agenda for America.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche later described Boasberg as a "threat to the rule of law" for using his own agendas in his court rulings to try to control the decisions of the Executive Branch.

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A tow-truck driver apparently thought it would be "funny" to tow away a vehicle being used by federal ICE agents making arrests in Los Angeles.

It's proven about has humorous as a decade in prison.

It was Acting U.S Attorney Bill Essayli who posted about the beginning of the case against Bobby Nunez:

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An Illinois man has been arrested and accused of intentional homicide of an unborn child after he allegedly gave the abortion chemical mifepristone to his girlfriend, killing her baby, according to a report from Live Action News.

The report said it was police in Bloomington who took into custody Emerson Evans, on allegations he drugged his girlfriend without her knowledge.

"Evans had reportedly been pressuring the woman to abort the baby," the report explained, adding, "He told police he paid a different woman $50 for the pills."

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In the immediate aftermath of a school shooting in Minneapolis this week, when a man shot and killed two children and injured more than a dozen more, reporters were unclear on a lot of details.

But they weren't about to let an assumption about the gender of the man who also died in the attack stand.

In a report posted by the New York Post, Fox News reported it was Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who was being interviewed by Aisla Chang of National Public Radio.

The senator referenced the shooter who attacked Annunciation Catholic School as "he."

Chang immediately jumped in, "And just a point of clarification, Sen. Klobuchar referenced the shooter as 'he.' Although police have identified a suspect, it's still unclear at this time what that person's gender is or how they identify."

She claimed the gender was "unclear."

In fact, police have identified the dead attacker as Robert Westman, 23, who changed his name to Robin as a juvenile because he wanted to identify as female.

Reports also have confirmed that he indicated a desire to leave the transgender lifestyle choice, and expressed regret that he ever brainwashed himself.

Police say he used three guns that legally were purchased, and committed suicide after the attack.

Klobuchar had said, "There's, of course, the hate. You're going to find that this perpetrator, that this horrific offender … that he … it was all-purpose hate, right? He hated a lot of different groups. It wasn't one ideology or another."

Klobuchar had added, "And then this madman shoots through the windows. The children are hiding under pews."

FBI chief Kash Patel said, "The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. There were 2 fatalities, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old. In addition, 14 children and 3 adults were injured. The shooter has been identified as Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman."

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The next Republican National Convention ordinarily would be leading into the 2028 presidential race.

But little about the presidency of Donald Trump fits into the "ordinarily" category, and he's been discussing the idea of having it just before the 2026 midterms.

His comments didn't include details of when or where the events would be, but he discussed his party's success. And members want to maintain the majority in both the House and Senate, as the party now has.

"The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

A report at Fox said, "Historically, midterms have been tough elections for the party controlling the White House, typically losing roughly 25 seats in the House. Trump and the Republicans lost 41 House seats in the 2018 midterms.

The report explained Republican National Committee chair Kiersten Pels, following Trump's announcement, told Fox News Digital that the president "is leading with bold, innovative ideas to energize our Party and keep us on the path to victory."

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The federal government has withdrawn the "emergency authorization" that allowed the COVID shots to be given to Americans without being fully evaluated and tested.

The Food and Drug Administration said it had approved COVID "boosters," but canceled the emergency use authorizations.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, confirmed the moves on social media.

He explained he promised to "1. to end covid vaccine mandates. 2. to keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable. 3. to demand placebo-controlled trials from companies. 4. to end the emergency."

He said that now has been accomplished.

"The emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded. FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+). These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors. The American people demanded science, safety, and common sense. This framework delivers all three."

Federal officials, however, including FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and a top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, have suggested the risks of COVID vaccines outweigh the benefits for healthy children and noted that uptake of the shots, both for children and adults, has been low in recent years.

In fact, there have been a long list of side effects linked to COVID shots, including heart ailments, especially in young men. Some of the side effects have proven to be fatal.

Kennedy already has decided months ago to stop recommending the shots for healthy children and pregnant women.

The FDA explained its "Emergency Use Authorization," used get the COVID shots on the market, allowed the "use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives."

In fact, however, previously available medications such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were documented to provide benefits against COVID. The medical deep state, however, constantly belittled them.

According to the Gateway Pundit, "In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration formally updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to reflect what many Americans have been warning about for years: a disturbingly high risk of myocarditis—particularly in young men—and the possibility of long-term, irreversible heart damage. The revised warnings apply to both Pfizer's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax vaccines and follow months of mounting pressure over transparency and accountability regarding the true risks of these experimental injections."

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When the U.S. Supreme Court, with the extremist liberal votes of several justices no longer there, fabricated "same-sex marriage" for all of American in 2015, there were warnings about how the ruling would be used against people of faith, those the values of family that have endured for millennia, and more.

All of those warnings were rejected by progressives and other leftists as likely not to exist, or be extremely rare.

Now that those observations have been proven wrong, there is a new movement, a new sentiment, that the precedent fabricated in Obergefell, a precedent that even dissenters on the Supreme Court warned was unrelated to the Constitution, should be overturned.

It's in a report in the Federalist that experts now confirm, "We can either recognize gay marriage or recognize children's right to their mother or father. We can't have both."

That's according to Katy Faust, of Them Before Us, an organization that advocates for the right of children to their biological parents.

"Marriage has, throughout our country and nearly every other culture throughout history, been the pathway to secure that right. But as every one of the 38 countries which have legalized gay marriage has learned, when you make husbands and wives optional in marriage, you make mothers and fathers optional in parenthood. The problem is, from the child's perspective, their own mother and father are never optional. Not in terms of their identity, their development, their safety, or their rights," she said.

The report in the Federalist warns the "tentacles" of the decision now are "in media, schools and curricula."

"The decision has left in tatters the single most important institution in society — marriage and family — while ushering in an LGBT indoctrination agenda, annual state-enforced homosexuality, a boost to the rent-a-womb industry, and a burgeoning acceptance of eugenics to service the rent-a-womb industry," the report warned.

The backlash has been developing for some time already. The report noted support for "gay marriage' among Republicans has dropped 14% since 2021, when it reached its high.

Faust is going to be part of a panel explicitly calling for the overturn of Obergefell at National Conservatism's fifth annual conference in September, the report said.

She will be joined by Claremont Institute senior fellow and constitutional lawyer Dr. John Eastman and Hale Institute Director Jeffrey Shafer.

The fight already has been pending at the Supreme Court, where several justices have pointedly noted the precedent should be reviewed. It is Kim Davis — the former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk known best for refusing to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple in the aftermath of Obergefell, who has asked the high court for a resolution.

It was Justice Clarence Thomas in the Dobbs decision that overturned the faulty Roe decision creating a "right" to abortion that didn't really exist in the Constitution who said Obergefell was endangered, because it was presupposed on the same faulty groundwork, substantive due process, as Roe.

"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold [right of married persons to obtain contraceptives], Lawrence [right to engage in private, consensual sex acts], and Obergefell," he wrote.

He noted any substantive due process decision is "demonstrably erroneous," so the court needs to "correct the error."

Eastman told the Federalist how Obergefell has damaged American law.

"There is no question that the ability to 'marry' someone of the same sex was never any part of the history and traditions of this, or any other, country. Normally, when articulating new unenumerated rights, the Court looks to whether the asserted right was part of the history and traditions of this country."

The Obergefell activists on the court did no such thing.

Which opens "the door to other novel claims, such as a 'right' to polygamous marriages, to polyamory, even bestiality — claims which followed on the court's decision in fairly short order," he noted.

Justice Samuel Alito also expressed concern when Obergefell was argued, and in his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts pointed out the problems.

Anthony Kennedy wrote the Obergefell decision, ignoring the dangerous social experiment he was mandating.

But even he allowed that people of sincere belief and good faith would continue to advocate against gay marriage, and he said they should be allowed to do so.

But the Davis case showed how wrong that has been: "For in adhering to and advocating for her sincerely-held religious view, [Davis] was hounded out of office, prosecuted, and financially ruined. Her First Amendment rights of speech and the free exercise of religion have been trampled beneath the foot of the LGBTQ+ agenda," Eastman said.

Faust warned, "In the post-Obergefell world, it's not just marriage that has been redefined. It's parenthood, infertility, and natural familial relationships. Children are now regarded as objects to be awarded to whichever adult has the money and means to assemble them. But children are not commodities. They are humans. With fundamental natural rights. The first of which is their right to life. But a close second is their right to be known and loved by both mother and father."

The Syracuse Law Review has explained that the arguments used to overturn Roe also could be used against "same-sex marriage." Neither abortion nor marriage actually is in the U.S. Constitution, so justices over the years have manufactured reasons to support both "rights."

The analysis, from several years ago, cited the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe for being based on "substantive due process," a doctrine adopted by some justices over the years to create "implied fundamental rights."

"Through various opinions, the Court has recognized a right of personal privacy, which has been extended to other activities such as inter-racial marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, and child rearing," the analysis said.

To manufacture same-sex "marriages," the court relied on "substantive due process" to claim same-sex "marriage" is constitutionally protected.

And the analysis said, "The aftermath of the Dobbs decision spans beyond abortion by calling into question other decisions that were decided on similar grounds to Roe — Obergefell (same-sex marriage), Lawrence (same-sex sexual conduct), and Griswold (contraceptives)—and whether the overturning of Roe presents a similar fate for these decisions."

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The all-Democrat government in Colorado – governor's office, state House, state Senate and state Supreme Court – for years has had an agenda to eliminate the rights protected by the First Amendment.

It has tried over and over to set state requirements for speech that try to control the messages that people and organizations are allowed to express.

And now it's getting sued for its latest scheming.

NetChoice, a social media corporation trade organization, sued the state "to stop the government's attacks on websites that host free speech."

The organization said in an announcement the state law, HB 24-1136, "mandates that websites display state-approved 'warning' messages to deter users from using online services and to promote the government's controversial views on social media."

"States can't do by 'warning label' what they can't do by outright ban. Trying to chill speech through stigma is still unconstitutional censorship, and we're fighting to stop it in NetChoice v. Weiser," the organization announced.

"At its core, this case is about one thing: compelled speech. Colorado is trying to force private websites to act as a mouthpiece for its preferred message," said @Paul_Taske, co-director of the NetChoice Litigation Center.

"The state is free to share its view on any topic it wishes, but it cannot force private businesses to speak for it. When the government speaks for itself, there is no problem, but when it coerces others to speak, the government plainly violates the First Amendment."

The state's latest battle against constitutional rights involves its scheming to force websites and online publishers to state the state's messages, whether they agree or not.

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Los Angeles, its mayor and chief of police are being sued in a case that accuses them of operating in violation of the U.S. Constitution by imposing a system of viewpoint discrimination that simply takes away the rights of some parts of the city's population.

The case comes from Liberty Counsel, which alleges that the defendants denied a permit for a peaceful assembly because it was from Mayday USA, a grassroots organization that advocates against abortion, pornography and human trafficking.

Yet, the charges say that the city, Mayor Karen Bass and Police Chief Jim McDonnell just "days later" provided that same permit for the LA Pride Parade, which advocates for positions opposite to what Mayday USA endorses.

Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver said, "The city of Los Angeles may not pick and choose which groups are allowed First Amendment rights of free expression or religious freedom. The Constitution is clear that religious freedom is inalienable.

"Liberty Counsel is defending these ministries because silencing the peaceful public expression of Christian viewpoints cannot be tolerated. The city's unconstitutional permitting scheme cannot withstand First Amendment scrutiny and causes irreparable harm to religious liberty. Los Angeles city officials must be held accountable."

The legal team charged, "The city unconstitutionally denied the organizers a permit to peacefully assemble even though a few days later the city permitted the LA Pride Parade in the same location."

It represents Jenny Donnelly, founder and president of Her Voice Movement, Inc., lead organizers Robert Donnelly, Ross Johnston, and Russell Johnson, lead pastor of The Pursuit, a Christian church in Washington.

They requested access to Hollywood Boulevard, a traditional public forum, for a May 31 event to worship, and to speak against abortion, pornography, and human trafficking.

City officials refused, and then went further by creating a long list of administrative hurdles and technical permitting requirements.

Yet, the same officials quickly granted permission at the same location for events such as the 55th Annual LA Pride Parade, the Thai New Year Songkran Festival, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests.

The plaintiffs are asking the court for an injunction to halt the city's "unlawful permitting process that violates the rights to free speech, religious exercise and equal protection."

The rights advocates had set up events in LA, New York, Miami, Seattle and Houston in May, a "Mayday" call for Christian revival.

"The events were permitted and held in the first four cities, though the city of Seattle conspicuously denied organizers their location of choice and only granted it to be held in a predominantly LGBTQ neighborhood," Liberty Counsel reported, where "gender-confused and antifa rioters dressed in black and wearing face masks assaulted the Christians in attendance," forcing police to intervene.

Los Angeles, for example, insisted organizers conduct a petition of Hollywood Boulevard's business owners and vendors to ensure at least 51 percent approved of Mayday's expressive activity and speech, they hold an event without a stage, and refused to allow reasonable times for the permit application, none of which is found in the city's code.

The filing quotes the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Shurtleff v. Boston, which rules, "When the government does not speak for itself, it may not exclude speech based on 'religious viewpoint;' doing so 'constitutes impermissible viewpoint discrimination.'"