ActRight

Democrats on Thursday voted against a bill aimed at preventing biological males from competing against females as transgender athletes, a bill Dems equated to bullying.

From The Hill: Democrats are winning the war over the wall. Despite President Trump’s request for more than $1 billion to fund the Mexican border wall this year, GOP leaders are expected to exclude the money in the spending bill being prepared to keep the government open beyond April 28. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says the choice is pragmatic and the money will come later. But the issue has become a political thorn in the side of GOP leaders who are facing pushback from Republicans voicing concerns over the diplomatic fallout, the disruption to local communities and the enormous cost of the project, estimated to be anywhere from $22 billion to $40 billion. With Democrats united against new wall funding, it’s unlikely the Republicans have the votes to get it through and prevent a government shutdown. Among the loudest GOP skeptics are those representing border districts. Reps. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), for instance, hail from districts that span a combined 880 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. They’re pressing the administration to justify the huge costs. “We recognize the need for robust border security and infrastructure to ensure public safety and increase cross border commerce,” the lawmakers wrote recently to top administration officials. “We also have an obligation to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.” Grover Norquist, a conservative anti-tax crusader who has supported comprehensive immigration reform, told The Hill that payment for the wall has not been an issue in his discussions with allies on Capitol Hill. And some Republicans are concerned that deteriorating relations with Mexico may be too high a price to pay for the wall. In a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) expressed concern to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly about a growing resentment in Mexico over the administration?s border policies. “There is a lot of anti-American sentiment in Mexico. If the election were tomorrow in Mexico, you?d probably have a left-wing, anti-American president in Mexico. That can?t be good for America,” McCain said. “It would not be good for America, or for Mexico,” Kelly conceded. The thinly veiled reference to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who tops most polls in the lead-up to Mexico’s upcoming 2018 presidential election, raised eyebrows in Mexico. Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Luis Videgaray told Kelly in Washington Thursday that Mexico “expects the United States to respect the Mexican electoral process.” Videgaray added that, although Mexico considers the wall an “unfriendly gesture,” it is “not part of a bilateral discussion and it shouldn’t be.” Democrats have latched on to Mexico?s consistent denial that the country will pay for a border wall — various officials and former officials have panned the notion since Trump first brought it up during the campaign — to take swings at the president. In its budget request, the White House had sought $1.4 billion in 2017 funds for the wall. But hoping to prevent a government shutdown, Ryan has suggested the Republicans will largely delay the wall funding debate until September, when Congress takes up spending bills looking ahead to fiscal 2018. “The big chunk of money for the wall, really, is ? next fiscal year’s appropriations, because they literally can’t start construction even this quickly,” he told “CBS This Morning” last week. Democrats are encouraged by those comments, but in the absence of specific legislation they remain leery that some Republicans, particularly those in the White House, will continue to push for wall provisions in the 2017 package. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she’s hopeful the Republicans will punt on the issue, citing recent polls indicating that voters are largely opposed. “I would hope that they wouldn?t try that because … the American people don?t even support it,” she told reporters Thursday. A Pew Research poll released in February found that 67 percent of voters oppose the wall, and only 35 percent support it. Last month, Pelosi visited the border region in Texas and warned that the wall would damage communities without benefiting public safety. “It?s about commerce. It?s about community. It?s about family. It?s about education. It?s about the environment. It?s about so many things,” she said. “So to put a wall there is really an insult and really an ineffective insult at that.” In Texas, where much of the land along the Rio Grande is privately owned, the wall has met resistance from many locals, regardless of party affiliation. Landowners have long fought the federal government exercising eminent domain to acquire land for border fencing. , the river?s natural floodplain would require the wall to be built well north of the border, leaving some land on the Mexican side of the wall. Land acquisition is less of a concern in other border states, where much of the land is owned by the federal government and, except for a short span on the Colorado River, the border crosses dry land. Still, past administrations have found a double duty for the wall in some sectors by building border fencing atop levees that protect communities from floods. In anticipation of potential litigation over border land, Trump?s Department of Justice budget request for 2018 included funding for “20 attorneys to pursue Federal efforts to obtain the land and holdings necessary to secure the Southwest border and another 20 attorneys and support staff for immigration litigation assistance.” Read more here.

Is it possible we have vastly overestimated certain risks from COVID-19, limiting fundamental civil liberties of law-abiding citizens and getting it wrong?

The Title IX Office introduced a new method of reporting incidents of sexual harassment, sexual violence or gender-based discrimination on its website Dec. 10, 2020.

Lucas Gerhard, 20, sent a photo of his newly purchased AR-15 rifle to a group of friends. He faces the charge of making a terrorist threat.

The "Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act."

The 2020s started off horrendously. Thanks to an exaggerated coronavirus pandemic, government lockdowns sunk the economy into the most serious recession since the Great Depression.

Legislation to prohibit private funding of elections and limit drop boxes for ballots is moving through key committees in Georgia.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined the state’s plan Thursday to formally shift to an “endemic” approach to learn to “live with” the coronavirus.

A House Judiciary subcommittee will hear from a witness who will warn that the U.S. is now a middleman of a massive operation of child smuggling at the southern border.

A newspaper in Colorado has yet to retract a letter to the editor it published suggesting state residents would be "intelligent" to act violently against oil pipelines in their communities. The Bou

Klobuchar said Thursday that she was dropping out of the running to be vice president and urging Democrat Joe Biden to select a woman of color instead

Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece is under fire for presuming the gunman in Monday’s Colorado mass shooting was white — because he was taken into custody alive. “The Atlan…

Earlier this week the gun manufacturer Remington reached a settlement with the families of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. The gunmaker, which produces the

Jerry Springer, a journalist, actor and talk show host, has died at the age of 79. His publicist confirmed his passing to Fox News Digital on Thursday.

The Syrian government was supposed to relinquish its chemical weapons arsenal in 2014 under a deal promoted by the Obama administration, but a recently declassified French intelligence report has prov

A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him.

UPDATE: It gets worse. Hunter Biden lied on his 4473 in 2018, got a gun, then his brother's widow that he was doing drugs with stole it, tossed it in a

Metal fencing, concrete barriers and parked police cars blocked access to a swathe of blocks south of Parliament Hill Sunday

Nice try on that Amendment, Democrats.

Through Black Fatherhood, we can procure a better America

HYRULE CASTLE - Politician and sword control activist Ganondorf once again made a plea to the people of Hyrule today, calling for common-sense Master Sword control.'If any kid can just waltz into the Temple of Time and get the Master Sword with just three paltry gems -- we have a huge problem in this country,' he said, holding back tears. 'I ...

The Ukraine crisis has entered a phase of maximum danger. In an address to the nation Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of …

I feel your pain. But please use your brain. On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect …