Ed Markey says he wants to hire BIPOC and LGBTQ+ interns — and gets hit with BRUTAL ridiculeDemocratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts put out the call for interns but added a list of racial and gender requirements that made many people scoff. The 80-year-old has been in Congress since 1976 and is running for re-election against Republican John Deaton, a U.S. Marine veteran and attorney. 'Why does a person need to disclose to you who they have…The Blaze5d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentmarkey internship controversy
The Supreme Court might let states rein in prediction markets — now the NFL supports a crackdownCertain types of bets shouldn't be allowed, and the NFL says it knows which ones cause the most corruption. The league is so sure, in fact, it wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on the regulatory issues surrounding prediction markets. 'The NFL's highest priority is preserving the integrity of its games.' In September, New Jersey Attorney General…The Blaze5d agoWhole story →Justicesupreme court prediction markets case
Glenn Beck reacts to Ilhan Omar home raid: ‘You don’t take her on unless you have it’Yesterday, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into alleged immigration fraud, which Fox News reported was tied to childhood paperwork filed by her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed. Glenn…The Blaze5d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentilhan omar home raid
The Fort Hood shooter is the ‘victim’ now as media compares execution to ‘lynchings’The Pentagon has just announced that it will livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, who killed 12 U.S. service members and one civilian in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the firing squad will carry out the sentence at Fort Hood, where Hasan’s attack took place. “Execution by firing squad,” Hegseth said in a brief…The Blaze5d agoWhole story →JusticeSecurityfort hood shooter execution
The raid that Democrats can’t wave awayOn Columbus Day, Homeland Security Investigations showed up before dawn at Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., residence with a court-authorized search warrant . That fact does not prove Omar committed a crime, and it does not by itself answer the Democrats' charge that politics infected the investigation. It does mean the Justice…The Blaze5d agoWhole story →JusticeSecurityilhan omar raid
Maine got robbed under Democrat Matt Dunlap's nose. Now he's running for Congress.PORTLAND, MAINE — Maine's chief financial watchdog wants a promotion. Matt Dunlap, the Democrat running against Republican former Gov. Paul LePage in Maine's 2nd Congressional District, has spent nearly five years as state auditor . During that time, Somali-run home-care agencies have drawn tens of millions of dollars from MaineCare out of offices where…The Blaze6d agoWhole story →EconomyGovernmentmaine congressional election
When justice itself becomes the villainIn Shirley Jackson’s 1948 story “ The Lottery ,” a town selects one resident by chance and stones the victim to death. The killing is arbitrary by design, a ritual nobody can justify beyond the fact that it has always been done. Much of the modern Western imagination now approaches capital punishment through a similar lens: not as justice, but as…The Blaze6d agoWhole story →Justice
Iowa city council erupts after ‘hail Satan’ opening — but does the Establishment Clause protect it?On October 6, at an Ottumwa, Iowa, City Council meeting, former council member Matt Dalbey — a member of The Satanic Temple of Iowa — delivered the opening invocation . In it, he addressed the “dark father,” referred to the “Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge,” and concluded with the words “It is done. Hail Satan.” Despite the Satanic…The Blaze6d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentiowa city council invocation controversy
