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‘Staggering overreach’: Some prayers now illegal, chief law enforcement official warns

The chief law enforcement officer of one state in Australia is warning that under a new law, some prayers all of a sudden are illegal.

That word comes from Michael Daley, the attorney general for New South Wales.

The details were released by the Australian Christian Lobby, which warned, “Have you ever been asked to pray for someone who is questioning their sexual desires or biological sex, but is seeking to be obedient to God’s word?

“According to the Attorney General, Michael Daley, the NSW Conversion Practices Ban Act makes some prayers with, or over, someone about these matters illegal regardless of consent.

“We thank the Hon. Susan Carter for advocating for clarity on the legislation. Thank you for asking the questions no one else will. We will continue to advocate for clear answers on this legislation and work to ensure that everyone has the right to pray without limitations.

“As we live with this new legislation, let us reflect on the prayer for boldness in Acts 4:23-31, specifically verse 29 – ‘Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.’ Pray our churches and Christian leaders remain bold and uncompromising in their commitment to God’s Word in their ministry.”

Have you ever been asked to pray for someone who is questioning their sexual desires or biological sex, but is seeking to be obedient to God’s word? According to the Attorney General, Michael Daley, the NSW Conversion Practices Ban Act makes some prayers with, or over, someone… pic.twitter.com/fCnubA7Ata

— Australian Christian Lobby (@ACLobby) September 3, 2025

According to the Christian Institute, Daley was responding to a question from politician Susan Carter, who raised concerns over the Conversion Practices Ban Act.

“Daley implied that this could even include silent prayer, when Carter raised it as an example,” the report explained.

The organization Anti-Discrimination NSW said “conversion practices” could resemble “prayer or pastoral conversation that is intended to change or suppress someone’s gender or sexuality.”

Carter raised the question about whether the government was prohibiting prayer.

Daley confirmed, “If it’s an unlawful prayer, then it’s not a lawful prayer.”

Lyle Shelton, of the Family First Australia organization, turned blunt: “Prayer has always been about change – change in circumstances, change in hearts, change in lives. To criminalize a prayer that someone requests is a staggering overreach of state power into the private and spiritual lives of citizens.”

He continued, “It is chilling to think that a mum or dad, pastor, or friend could face sanction for praying with someone who explicitly asked for prayer to help them follow God’s word.”

Simon Calvert, of the Christian Institute and spokesman for the Institute’s Let Us Pray campaign, which opposes new legislation, said in March: “A ban is not necessary, because everyone is already legally protected from abuse, and not possible, because banning harmless speech about sex and sexuality is tyrannical.”

‘Crackdown’: President Trump plans bombshell for H-1B visa program

A special visa program, the H-1B program that allows companies to hire foreign workers to replace Americans in those same duties at much lower salaries, is facing a bombshell from President Donald Trump.

He plans to impose a $100,000 fee on all such visa applications.

The program was created on the idea that there were not enough American workers with specific tech skills to fill the jobs that were open.

Under the plan, companies must “advertise” job openings, and then when no one responds to their sometimes extremely obscure announcements, they are allowed to hire foreigners for those positions.

Tech companies like Microsoft and others are known to have taken advantage repeatedly of such manipulations.

But Trump has announced plans to sign an executive order that is adding a $100,000 fee to all applications.

Currently, fees for the program start about $2,000 per visa, and generally don’t go much higher.

President Trump is expected to overhaul the H-1B Visa program with a new $100,000 application fee.

The current H-1B Visa fee is typically around $2,000-$5,000.

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— AF Post (@AFpost) September 19, 2025

According to the New York Post, the White House confirmed the plan.

“The move marks the latest crackdown by the administration on migrants coming into the U.S. for job opportunities, and is likely intended to limit visa applicants to those from higher financial brackets,” the Post said.

“The administration views the current H-1B visa program — which admits hundreds of thousands of workers into the U.S. each year — as a way for companies to exploit lower-wage employees, ultimately impacting U.S. salaries,” it said.

Of concern is that U.S. students could avoid science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields because of the flood of foreigners being brought into the U.S. in those fields.

Such a transfer of power through employment is considered by many to be a national security threat.

The government, meanwhile, has confirmed that some 70% of H-1B visa recipients are from India, which has made an industry of moving tech jobs from America to its own shores.

In addition to the new cash fee, the president also apparently has plans to order the nation’s secretary of labor to begin making a rule that would revise the prevailing-wage requirements of the program.

Bloomberg News said it’s all intended to limit the use of special visas to harm the wages of Americans.

The stocks for Indian IT corporations that rely on the visa advantage plummeted when the news was released.

Significant drop in stocks for Indian IT firms that dominate the H-1B visa field directly after the news the Trump admin will impose a $100k fee for the work visas pic.twitter.com/BvHyvy7iAf

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) September 19, 2025

There also are other visa programs, like the OPT program providing for U.S.-based work for students, that also are the subject of investigations.

You’re not ready for this H-1B visa chart.

While the US tightens rules, hikes fees, and slams the system as a “scam”…
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These 11 companies increased their H-1B approvals in 2025:

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— Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) September 10, 2025

Contravenes scientific reality: Trump wants Supremes to halt passport plan involving one’s sex

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President Donald Trump has gone to the Supreme Court seeking an order halting a passport plan that has “no basis in law or logic.”

It is D. John Sauer, the nation’s solicitor general, who explained to the court that a lower court decision that allows people “to select their own sex designation” regardless of their biological sex should be halted.

“Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person’s biological sex—especially not on identification documents that are government property and an exercise of the President’s constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments,” Sauer told the justices in his petition.

“That injunction injures the United States by compelling it to speak to foreign governments in contravention of both the President’s foreign policy and scientific reality. As the lower courts have declined to stay this baseless injunction pending appeal, this Court’s intervention is warranted,” Sauer said.

A report in the Washington Examiner explained it was Joe Biden who pursued a plan that let people “select” their listed sex on passports.

BREAKING: President Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow Marco Rubio at the State Department REQUIRE passport applicants to select male or female rather than made-up gender identity, after the policy was blocked by activist judges. pic.twitter.com/Ly3xspFarl

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 19, 2025

Since the beginning of such designations, U.S. passports have allowed people to list male or female on their passports.

Then came Biden’s transgender agenda, in which he advocated for chemical treatments and body mutilating surgeries on both adults and children.

Trump’s reversion to the previous standard, Sauer explained, is “eminently lawful.”

It was Judge Julia Kobick who made the claim that Biden’s policy was required.

And then it was the Daily Caller that explained her connections to and support for Democrats and Democrat agendas run deep.

Nominated by Joe Biden, she previously clerked for leftist extremist and vocal anti-Trump justice Ruth Ginsburg.

She also worked with Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey when she was attorney general.

She also worked with the “Government Bureau’s Racial Equity Working Group.”

She also volunteered for Democratic political campaigns, including a stint promoting John Kerry and Elizabeth Warren.

Sauer was at the high court on Friday, seeking to correct the decision from the lower court.

Trump’s administration largely has been successful in its cases before the Supreme Court, which often have been moved there because of the politically driven agendas used by district court judges against Trump.

 

‘Not looking for peace’: Ex-Dem strategist says party may have rioted if their own Charlie Kirk were assassinated

Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine speculated on Friday’s “The Morning Meeting” that members of his party might have rioted had a left-wing version of Charlie Kirk been assassinated.

Since Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10, mourners have held vigils in his honor and reportedly attended church services in droves. Turrentine expressed doubt on the 2WAY show that his party would have handled a similar situation so peacefully.

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“Would our party be as calm? I think, Mark, likely there would be riots potentially. I mean, just look at the history of the last 40 years when stuff like that has happened,” Turrentine told co-host Mark Halperin. “I’m not saying one community necessarily, but do I have confidence that we would be as calm and measured? Not leaders, I’m talking about like regular, you know, people, emotions coming out … It’s not that I think there would be riots, but would I be surprised if there were riots? No, I would not.”

Left-wing protesters at a vigil for Kirk even sang a song that was engraved on a bullet in the rifle of his alleged assassin in a video posted to X on Sunday by the New York University College Republicans chapter, which held the vigil.

“Protesters sung the song written on the bullet casings which killed Charlie Kirk at the vigil mourning his death tonight at NYU,” the group posted. “They also threatened to kill NYU College Republican Club president Ryan Leonard. They’re not looking for peace.”

Over 7,000 individuals convened at Colorado State University’s stadium on Thursday, where Kirk had been scheduled to speak — instead, it became a vigil.

Members of academia — including students, educators and administrators — have taken to celebrating Kirk’s assassination, according to reports. Several have since been suspended, fired or expelled.

YouGov also published a Sept. 12 poll finding 25% of those who were very liberal believed political violence can be warranted occasionally.

Moreover, there were riots throughout the U.S.after the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020. Some Democrats inflamed and encouraged the riots with statements either denying the violence or shifting the blame to President Donald Trump and his supporters.

The riots left at least 24 dead and caused nearly $1 billion in property damage. An Oregon court also ordered alleged Antifa members to pay journalist Andy Ngo $300,000 after attacking him at a June 29, 2019, protest.

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Mother who lost son to fentanyl crusades to educate Americans about nation’s top killer

On the left, a lethal dose of heroin; on the right, a lethal dose of fentanyl (Photo: New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab)

Americans often hear the mind-numbing statistic that fentanyl poisoning is the No. 1 cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

Most do not comprehend how this can be, not understanding that the powerful narcotic – unlike almost any other drug – is not just addicting, but is frequently added to other illicit drugs for the express purpose of poisoning/killing Americans.

Thus there is a significant deficit in education and awareness among the American public regarding the battle against lethal synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.

WorldNetDaily recently interviewed Lisa Carole Cude, a mother who has experienced the devastating effects of fentanyl firsthand.

Cude’s firstborn son, Jordan, was in active recovery for substance use addiction, having moved from a restrictive residential treatment center for eight months to a less-restrictive sober living home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Three weeks after Jordan moved into the sober living house with five men in active recovery for substance use, Lisa Cude invited her sons for lunch to “share some time together” and “celebrate life.” Jordan was “doing extremely well, getting his life back together,” she said, adding that her son was committed not only to his own recovery but also to helping others. “He was healthy and happy, moving forward, doing all of the necessary hard-work and dedication towards a better life,” she said, noting he was “free from all substances.”

Then, on the night of that very day, March 20, 2021, he lost his life. The mother of three was “blindsided” the next day when three uniformed officers knocked on her door to inform her of losing Jordan.

“I thought those knocks were him arriving early for dinner,” she told WND, as she was preparing for a Sunday family get-together. “Instead of a happy occasion, and through the shock, I had to inform my other sons and their father the devastating news.” She lamented, “The enormity of the pain is indescribable for all who loved him,” adding, “I wish it on no one.”

Later, revealed Lisa Cude, “a toxicology report came back full of a deadly dose of fentanyl cut with cocaine.” With much regret, she said her son relapsed with his roommate. “They purchased cocaine, and it was full of fentanyl.” As she explained, “You don’t die from cocaine. I know for a fact that he did not want to die, and he was poisoned, unknowingly, sold cocaine cut with 28ngs of pure fentanyl – enough to kill 14 men.”

Sadly, not only did Jordan make an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend by notifying 911, but he also succumbed to the poison himself. “They both lost their lives to this deadly drug,” his mother told WND, “along with the hundreds of thousands of others dying in our country each year. You can fill easily up a football stadium with the number of lives lost to this poison.”

“I can’t even describe the pain and heartache and shock that I went into,” Lisa Cude shared, admitting “it’s something that you live with every moment of every day.” Since that tragic day, she has sought to “channel” her sorrow and raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, “to spare other families this grief towards positive changes in hope of saving lives.” She added, “Education is key [and] knowledge is power.”

“Never believe that it can’t be your son or daughter, or in your wonderful community,” she said. “The media often tries to depict addiction as something those living on the streets are dealing with, and while those people truly matter, the truth is that addiction affects the lives of anyone, regardless of their socioeconomic status.” For her, it’s imperative that everyone understands that addiction “has no boundaries, [affecting] every socio-economic background, in every workplace, in every profession, in every school, in every church, and in every community no matter how small or big.”

For her son Jordan, the addiction that spiraled out of control began “innocently with a pain prescription of Percocet for the removal of wisdom teeth.” He moved from liking the way the pills made him feel on to “party pills” with his friends, to include drugs prescribed by doctors, like highly addictive OxyContin.

Describing how they inevitably moved on to “street heroin,” she noted that “prescription OxyContin is synthetic heroin,” adding that both are highly addictive and potent opioids.

“Never in his medical and therapy records or in his journals was fentanyl ever mentioned,” Lisa Cude said. “When in active addiction, his drugs of choice were heroin, cocaine and Xanax.” For others, the cycle could begin with something as simple as taking a pill to manage anxiety or boost energy. In any of the situations, she cautioned, even a small amount of fentanyl mixed into any drug, including a fake pill, could prove fatal for the user.

“None of the media or our government is doing enough to save the lives of those who didn’t want to die,” she lamented. What is needed, she said, is “a major media blitz and public service announcements with factual information and mandatory education in all levels of education systems throughout our country.”

“Treat this travesty like the Covid pandemic,” she said. “Scare people straight with the facts.”

Lisa Cude praises people like Derek Maltz, a former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division and former acting administrator of the DEA, for bringing this issue to the forefront. As Maltz frequently emphasizes, she likewise believes there is a significant need for extensive public service announcements, engagement from celebrities to connect with younger audiences on the dangers of fentanyl, and enhanced bipartisan government initiatives that not only continue to halt the influx of fentanyl into the nation, but also boost awareness and education for both children and adults.

Equally important to Lisa Cude, she told WND, is her “belief in Jesus Christ. If it wasn’t for my faith in Christ, I would not be here, as it is only this faith that has pulled me through this and has been constant through it all.”

She wants to offer this hard-won wisdom to others, too, and has created a blog, a podcast and devotionals for healing, directed toward grieving parents, people battling addiction and “the people who love them through it” – sharing her faith throughout.

“There are so many terrible stories out there, but there is also hope,” she told WND. “No matter what comes our way, we can’t lose focus of our faith.”

School board member had never heard of Charlie Kirk, but now claims he’s ‘racist bigot’

Leftists largely have erupted in rage and ridicule over the assassination death of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, and the statements of prayers and sympathy for the family.

Now there’s a school board member in Florida who claims to have heard of Kirk only last week, but he’s already solidified his opinion that the Turning Point USA co-founder was a “racist bigot.”

Palm Beach County board member Edwin Ferguson was responding to an advisory from state officials that teachers should not be celebrating the assassination, and should be mocking those who express support for Kirk’s widow, Erika, and the couple’s two small children.

Ferguson lashed out, “Comments that they mad ein regard to a gentleman by the name of Charlie Kirk, who, until the last week I knew nothing of. … Unless you, as a parent or you as a teacher feel bad because I as a teacher don’t miss a racist – a racist bigot at that – I don’t see how you’re going to be at risk of losing your teaching certificate.”

The advisory came about because some teachers were mocking Kirk and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

JUST IN: “I Don’t Miss a Racist Bigot.”

Palm Beach County School Board (@pbcsd) Member Edwin Ferguson brands Charlie Kirk a “racist bigot” in a Wednesday outburst at a public school board meeting.

Ferguson’s Wednesday comments were in response to a warning letter from… pic.twitter.com/XMcGd6TXRE

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) September 18, 2025

Ferguson’s statement responds to the letter below. https://t.co/DBgrl6s3rZ

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) September 18, 2025

Social media responded, with one writer explaining, “I live in this county and as a taxpayer I do not approve or appreciate my money being used to fund his salary. I’ve already sent emails to @SenRickScott, @SenAshleyMoody and tweeted @RepFine (even though I’m not in his district) to look into this matter immediately.”

Another said, “Sounds like another firing is in order. The unemployment line awaits!”

In fact, employers all across America have been removing from their payrolls workers who openly celebrate and mock the criminal assassination, for which a suspect now is charged with capital murder and could face the death penalty.

That suspect is identified as Tyler Robinson, who reports confirm had turned radically left over recent months, being immersed in the transgender ideology.

A report at the Gateway Pundit said, “Ferguson criticized the letter from the DOE warning teachers against mocking Charlie Kirk and compared Kirk to Adolf Hitler.”

“I have [yet] to hear a person of the Jewish faith say that, ‘I miss Adolf Hitler,'” the report said he complained.

 

WATCH: AOC claims Charlie Kirk wanted ‘to disenfranchise millions of Americans’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Controversial Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained her “no” vote on a House resolution Friday to honor the life of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.

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"A resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow, and the legacy of bigotry today."

Dem. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned Republican House leaders for the resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk, accusing him of… pic.twitter.com/4EEjkgapoS

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 19, 2025

‘Radical and unhinged:’ Dozens of Dems vote NO on resolution honoring Charlie Kirk

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‘Where are they getting all these assets?’: Kirk’s funeral tests Secret Service again

Amid a fiery national debate over political violence and free speech, the Secret Service faces one of its biggest tests yet in securing Charlie Kirk’s massive funeral in Arizona this weekend.

President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and numerous dignitaries, conservative figures, prominent reporters, television anchors, and up to 100,000 members of the public are expected to attend the tribute to Kirk’s life this Sunday at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale.

The Secret Service has been under serious scrutiny since multiple failures provided an opening for two near-miss assassination attempts against Trump last year, the first of which resulted in the death of rallygoer Corey Comperatore and the serious injury of two other attendees.

The Secret Service successfully protected the inauguration of President Trump in January without a hitch, even though the agency moved the swearing-in ceremony indoors and canceled the traditional outdoor parade, purportedly because of low temperatures in D.C.

But the massive Arizona memorial service honoring Kirk, the assassinated conservative activist and organizer known for his influence with young people across the country and the world, poses a serious challenge for law enforcement and the Secret Service, an agency already facing manpower strains and pressure as it strives to repair its reputation to execute a zero-fail mission.

The stadium in Glendale can seat 63,400, and the local police department is planning for a crowd of up to 100,000 people to descend on the area, with at least one overflow location designated at the Desert Diamond Arena where the event will livestream on jumbotrons.

Kirk’s memorial comes during tumultuous times for the nation. His supporters mourn his brutal killing amid a national debate over gun violence and what types of limits, if any, private and government entities can place on free speech. Conservative and liberal politicians and political commentators are facing off over ABC’s Wednesday decision to abruptly fire late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel after he misrepresented the assassin’s likely motives for murdering Kirk. And Trump on Wednesday designated the far-left Antifa group a “terrorist organization” and said he was strongly recommending that those funding the movement be thoroughly investigated “in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”

It’s also a difficult moment for the Secret Service, which has faced serious retention issues since the assassination attempts, with a recent Department of Homeland Security Department Office of the Inspector General’s report exposing the agency as seriously understaffed when it comes to counter snipers – 73% below mission requirements.

A large contingent of top-flight Secret Service agents traveled to the United Kingdom with Trump and first lady Melania this week for an official state visit. And the United Nations General Assembly will be in full swing next week in New York City, where the Secret Service is charged with securing more than 100 visiting foreign dignitaries at hotels and events around Manhattan. Meanwhile, the agency must also maintain security teams around all Cabinet secretaries and former presidents.

“Where are they getting all these assets?” Rich Staropoli, former Secret Service agent and former Department of Homeland Security undersecretary, asked in an interview with RealClearPolitics.

“It’s going to be very difficult to find the manpower, given the UN is in session and then you probably have a couple of hundred guys on their way back from London right now that won’t get back until the day after the president,” he added. “And then you’ve got this event, this huge event out in Arizona. It’s not like we got a couple of hundred agents out there on a normal basis.”

Other sources in the Secret Service community argue that the agency is well prepared to handle both UNGA and the Kirk memorial service, especially since Trump and Vance will be there with their USSS details, some of the most highly trained agents, and elite units designed for high-risk scenarios.

Back in New York City, the Secret Service has a high trust in the New York Police Department’s robust team of counter snipers in their Emergency Services Unit, with which the agency partners for protection. Not all foreign dignitaries show up at once; they arrive and participate in the summit on a rolling basis, former Secret Service agent Charles Marino explains.

“The fact that we’ve got a great deal of confidence in the NYPD, that does free up some resources for the USSS to use for this memorial,” Marino tells RCP.

The Department of Homeland Security has designated the Kirk funeral as a Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) 1 event with the same level of security as the Super Bowl or the Boston Marathon. The designation is different than a National Special Security Event, a category for events that could affect the nation and the world. In SEAR events, state and local authorities make the assessments and DHS provides the assets.

The Secret Service agent in charge of the Phoenix Field Office will serve as the federal coordinator for the service, working side by side with local partners.

Those Secret Service and local law enforcement partnerships broke down during the assassination attempt against Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the agency and local police maintained siloed communications and even two separate command posts.

On the one-year anniversary of the Butler event, Secret Service Director Sean Curran issued a statement declaring that the agency is “laser-focused on ensuring that those we are sworn to protect, the public, and the dedicated men and women of the Secret Service are never let down again.”

Curran said the agency has implemented changes to the Secret Service’s protective operations policies “to ensure clear lines of accountability and improved information sharing with local law enforcement partners.”

In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, House Republicans this week also included $88 million in a stop-gap funding bill to bolster security for federal officials. The funds would include $30 million for congressional security, $30 million for the executive branch, and $28 million for the judiciary.

“[Kirk’s killing] initiated a number of uncomfortable but necessary conversations about important issues like the safety and security of our members and the responsibility of public service, and the need for political leaders to turn down the temperature and the violent rhetoric in America,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said.

Despite these efforts, the Secret Service was fumbling again just days before Kirk’s killing in ways that funding boosts may not fix.

RCP reported last week that Secret Service screeners missed a Glock in the bag of someone who had entered Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia, while Trump was golfing over Labor Day weekend. Thankfully, the individual posed no harm to the president and self-reported the security breach.

Last Thursday, the night before Kirk’s assassination, anti-Israel Code Pink protesters ambushed Trump, Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as they were dining out in D.C. just a short walk from the White House. The protesters unfurled pro-Palestinian flags and banners and yelled epithets at Trump from just a few feet away.

After Kirk’s murder, RCP reported that a Secret Service agent named Anthony Pough posted on Facebook that the conservative activist was a “racist” and essentially deserved to be killed because of “karma.” The Secret Service placed the agent on administrative leave late last week.

The Secret Service defended its response to the protesters who verbally accosted Trump at the restaurant last week, arguing that agents escorted them out quickly. An agency spokesperson also said that the Secret Service had screened everyone in the establishment for weapons and explained that the protesters had made reservations to dine at the restaurant along with all the other patrons.

But Staropoli and other former agents argued that the Code Pink incident was another embarrassing breach – that the Secret Service should have acted more quickly to remove the protesters or should have screened restaurant patrons more thoroughly to prevent such a menacing display.

With the Kirk assassination consuming the following day’s news cycle, the press never asked the White House whether the Secret Service should have prevented the Code Pink confrontation from occurring.

Just hours before that incident, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday evening told RCP that the Secret Service has opened an investigation into the missed Glock incident “to figure out exactly how the gun made it onto the property.”

“As for the president, in the past he has said he trusts USSS and the job they do to protect him,” Leavitt added.

Leavitt did not say whether Trump’s trust in the Secret Service remains – or whether magnetometers would be required at his golf clubs in the future, a question RCP posed to her.

Some Secret Service agents chock up the recent breaches to either a lowering of standards as the agency tries to beef up its numbers during a severe manpower shortage or fatigue because existing agents and Uniformed Division officers used for screening are continuing to be stretched too thin.

“The backdrop here is the Service has got to move quickly in building up these numbers as quickly as possible because these types of big competing security events are not going away – they’re just not,” Marino remarked.

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

 

Lawmaker to propose amendment enshrining parental rights in Constitution

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., will propose a constitutional amendment to establish the freedom of parents to raise and educate their children as a fundamental right.

“For too long, unelected bureaucrats and activist judges have trampled on the role of parents, treating them as obstacles, instead of the primary protectors and decision-makers for their children,” Miller told The Daily Signal. “That must end.”

“My Parental Rights Amendment will enshrine this truth in the United States Constitution, ensuring once and for all that parents, not the government, hold the ultimate authority and responsibility for the upbringing, education, and care of their children.”

The amendment would establish “the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children” as “a fundamental right.”

Miller’s joint resolution to amend the Constitution says a parent’s right to direct his or her child’s education includes the right to choose private, religious, or home schools as an alternative to public school. It also includes the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one’s child.

“Neither the United States nor any State shall infringe these rights without demonstrating that its governmental interest as applied to the person is of the highest order and not otherwise served,” the proposed amendment says.

The joint resolution would have to be approved by two-thirds majority votes in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and then ratified by the votes of three-fourths of the states, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures, then similarly ratified by three-quarters of the states.

Republican Reps. Sheri Biggs of North Carolina, Ashley Hinson of Iowa, Mike Collins of Georgia, Addison McDowell of North Carolina, Ben Cline of Virginia, and Greg Steube of Florida are co-sponsoring the joint resolution.

Conservative organizations, including Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, Independent Women’s Forum, Parents Defending Education, Moms for Liberty, and Alliance Defending Freedom, support the amendment.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]

‘Radical and unhinged:’ Dozens of Dems vote NO on resolution honoring Charlie Kirk

Nearly five dozen House Democrats voted against a resolution honoring the life and legacy of assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Friday morning.

Lawmakers voted 310 to 58 to approve the resolution introduced by House Speaker Mike Johnson and 165 GOP lawmakers. House Democrats, including Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, rejected the measure celebrating Kirk’s life by citing their disagreement with his political views.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team voted for the measure. Thirty-eight House Democrats voted “present” on the resolution and 22 Democratic lawmakers did not vote.

“Such acts of politically motivated violence are antithetical to the principles of a free republic, in which differences of opinion are to be debated—not silenced—with civility, reason, and mutual respect,” the resolution reads in part.

Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 during a speaking event at Utah Valley University. Authorities have charged suspected assassin Tyler Robinson, 22, with aggravated murder, a capital offense. Robinson has been reported to have ties to far-left ideology.

At the time of his death Kirk was 31. The slain conservative activist leaves behind a widow and two young children.

House Democratic leadership broadcast their support for the bill in a closed-door meeting, but did not issue a recommendation to their members on how to vote, Axios first reported.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans’ campaign arm, torched Democrats for voting against the resolution honoring Kirk’s legacy and denouncing political violence.

“The modern Democrat Party is simply too radical and unhinged to condemn a politically motivated assassination and honor a man and father of two whose only crime was loving America, winning the debate in the proper fashion, and inspiring others to do the same,” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement.

The Senate passed a similar resolution by unanimous consent earlier in the week. The upper chamber also passed a resolution to establish a “National Day of Remembrance” for the slain activist on Thursday. The commemorative day will be on Oct. 14, Kirk’s birthday.

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