The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a resolution Wednesday evening that would call on elected officials and other civic leaders to counter antisemitism and educate the public on the contributions of Jewish Americans for Jewish American Heritage Month.  The resolution calls on the executive branch and state and local leaders to take “all possible steps to ensure the safety, security, and dignity of American Jews in all aspects of their lives, including the workplace, college and university campuses, synagogues, and at home.” The bipartisan resolution is sponsored by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa; Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.; and Troy Carter, D-La.  “Antisemitism is surging across our country—from college campuses to city streets—and it must be confronted head-on. I co-sponsored this resolution because standing against hate and standing with our Jewish neighbors and our ally Israel is not—and should never be—a partisan issue,” Miller-Meeks told The Daily Signal. “I’m glad to work across the aisle with anyone willing to call out antisemitism for what it is. Silence in the face of this growing threat is not an option,” the Iowa congresswoman added.  The resolution comes in May, which has historically been recognized as Jewish American Heritage Month. The month was first celebrated by presidential proclamation by George W. Bush in April 2006. Since then, American presidents have issued proclamations for the month. According to the House resolution, Jewish American Heritage Month “encourages all people of the United States to learn more about Jewish heritage and the contributions of Jewish people throughout the history of the United States.” The resolution covers several noteworthy inventions by Jewish Americans. They include the shopping cart, the Polaroid instant camera, and the Barbie doll, among others. The anthem “God Bless America” was written by a Jewish American, Irving Berlin.  The resolution cites troubling statistics regarding antisemitism and Jewish Americans. It notes that according to the American Jewish Committee, 77% of American Jews feel less safe in the U.S. since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists in Israel. Nearly 70% of Jewish adults reported experiencing antisemitism online. The resolution also cites Hillel International, which found that 83% of Jewish college students also either witnessed or experienced antisemitism since the October 2023 attack and ensuing war. A recent report by Harvard University found a troubling climate on the campus. To take just one example, The Daily Signal reported that at the university’s School of Education, there was a “Pyramid of White Supremacy” graphic that characterized opposing the “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” movement against Israel as “coded genocide.” “Make no mistake, antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine, and attacks on Jewish students in any school setting is unacceptable, and then there should be serious consequences,” Wasserman-Schultz said on the House floor in support of the resolution.  All of these statistics contributed to what the resolution calls “record highs with incidents targeting Jews and those who are perceived as Jewish.” According to a recent poll of registered voters, 37% of voters think Jewish Americans are more supported by Republicans than Democrats. That compared with 26% who thought the reverse. That’s a marked difference in opinion compared with last September, when voters were nearly evenly split on the issue.  The post House Considers Bipartisan Jewish American Heritage Month Resolution appeared first on The Daily Signal.

At a hearing before a Senate panel Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the case that he’s running a cost-efficient, yet effective, HHS. “When my team and I took the helm at HHS, we set out with clear goals,” Kennedy said told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. “First, we aimed to make America healthy again, with a special focus on the chronic disease epidemic. Second, we committed to delivering more efficient, effective, and responsive service to over 100 million Americans who rely on Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. “RFK KILLS PEOPLE WITH AIDS!”Secretary Kennedy’s Senate testimony interrupted by a burst of protesters who accused him of killing people with AIDS pic.twitter.com/w8DKe1qjWZ— Rob (@RobMcGravytrain) May 14, 2025 Kennedy came to the committee to defend budget and staffing cuts to his department. That was generally not well received by committee Democrats. “You are here to defend cutting [the National Institutes of Health] by half,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.  “I think the cuts that are now proposed by the NIH are going to hurt,” Kennedy acknowledged to Murray. “Listen, there’s no agency head in the government, like myself, that wants to see their budget cut.” Murray would not let him continue to defend the cuts. Kennedy also faced off with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who alleged that the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Medicaid reforms were cuts that would kick Americans off Medicaid. In a ridiculous exchange, RFK Jr. is asked by Bernie Sanders about cuts to Medicaid, but is cut off before he's allowed to give any kind of answer.Sanders: "Is throwing 13 million Americans off of the healthcare they have keeping America Healthy?"Kennedy: "The cuts are… pic.twitter.com/Vty83OSW0Z— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) May 14, 2025 “As it stands right now, [the bill] cuts Medicaid in the Affordable Care Act by more than $715 billion, which the [Congressional Budget Office] has estimated would eliminate health insurance for 13.7 million Americans,” said Sanders in reference to the committee’s legislative text, which would institute work requirements and citizenship verification for Medicaid recipients. “The cuts are not true cuts,” replied Kennedy. “The cuts are eliminations of waste, abuse, and fraud.” Sanders, saying he was short on time, did not allow Kennedy to list the groups of people who would no longer get Medicaid payments, such as illegal immigrants and nonworking but able-bodied adults. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was among the friendliest senators to Kennedy, praising the cuts as a way to limit frivolous research grants. “One of the reasons I think we need to look at NIH and other grant-making organizations is: If you keep giving them the same amounts [of funding], you’ll keep getting the same frivolous grants.” Paul then went through a litany of research studies, such as a $660,000 grant “to study the impact of microaggressions on obesity-related eating in Latinx Americans.” RFK Jr. CONFIRMS to Sen. Rand Paul that the FBI is investigating a breach at Fort Detrick in which PPE was intentionally slashed. He also confirms that viruses handled included one with a ~50% fatality rate.Paul says a bill is needed to end GOF. pic.twitter.com/U5gnsXuHmt— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) May 14, 2025 Paul was pleased by Kennedy discussing how he had scaled back controversial “gain of function” viral research, which may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic. “There are three leaks a week, globally, from BSL-4 labs, and any of those could be cataclysmic for humanity,” said Kennedy, referencing “biosafety level 4” labs, which are the most dangerous. “We also declared the end of gain of function studies that will allow those kinds of leaks to continue,” he added. that will allow those kinds of leaks to continue,” he added. The post Kennedy Defends HHS Budget, Staffing Cuts in Face of Democrats’ Criticism appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Michigan Court of Claims held on May 13 that state laws requiring informed consent for abortion violate the unlimited right to “reproductive freedom” that voters placed in the Michigan Constitution in 2022. This is the first of many lawsuits using these radical state charter provisions to dismantle any limits on abortion and a host of other things. Several months after the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution has never protected a right to abortion, Michigan voters added the Reproductive Freedom for All provision to their state constitution, stating that every “individual” has “a fundamental right to reproductive freedom.” It prohibits any burden on this right “unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.” At the time, pro-life advocates warned that this constitutional amendment would be even more radical than the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions. The court, for example, held that abortion, which ends a pregnancy, is “inherently different” from contraception, which prevents one. The Reproductive Freedom for All provision makes no such distinction. The Supreme Court recognized that a state’s interest in “protecting fetal life” is “important” from conception and becomes “compelling” later in pregnancy. The Michigan provision does not recognize any interest in the child at any point during pregnancy. The Supreme Court recognized that minors “lack the ability to make fully informed choices” and upheld laws requiring some kind of parental involvement in minors’ abortion decisions. By applying to the “individual,” the Reproductive Freedom for All language erased any distinction between adults and children. The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade created a right to abortion. The provision not only applies to “all matters relating to pregnancy” but adds the open-ended phrase “but not limited to,” guaranteeing that the people of Michigan will not know what they’ve done until the courts tell them. The Michigan Court of Claims has begun telling them by striking down three laws intended to ensure that women have sufficient information when deciding whether to get an abortion. In doing so, the court interpreted the word “burden” in the provision to mean virtually any effect whatsoever. Here’s an example: requiring a 24-hour waiting period between a woman receiving relevant information and having an abortion is a “burden” because it “prolongs the wait time.” There’s no disputing that adding wait time does indeed, well, prolong wait time, the court deemed this “burden” sufficient to make the law unconstitutional. Or this example: requiring a doctor to confirm a pregnancy and the child’s gestational age is a “burden” even though failing to do so “would surely lead to a medical malpractice case.” Those steps may be important to sound medical practice but requiring them makes the law unconstitutional. Here’s another: even though the expert witnesses agreed that screening women to make sure they are not being coerced to get an abortion “is a necessary step in abortion” practice, a law requiring them to do so violates the Reproductive Freedom for All provision. The court made one thing abundantly clear. “Under the plain language of the RFFA, the only compelling state interest can be the health of the patient seeking care.” In other words, a state may do nothing to protect the child in the womb. Ever. The only thing that matters is the decision whether to destroy that child. What may come next is a challenge to laws aimed at preventing exploitation of minors. Under the “plain language” of the provision, however, someone who assists a minor in deciding to abort, and even helping her actually get one, cannot be prosecuted. They could do so without the child’s parents ever knowing about her pregnancy. Schools may require parental notice and permission for their daughters to get an aspirin, but requiring parental notice about something as profound as an abortion for their daughter would be impossible. Laws prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion might be the next to fall. Courts in a few states have already found that funding restrictions violate equal rights amendments in those states’ constitutions. It won’t take much to claim that having to pay for an abortion “burdens” the decision whether to get one. Since 2022, voters in Ohio and several more states added a similarly radical provision to their constitutions and voters in other states will be pushed to do so in upcoming elections. Abortion zealots intend to achieve state-by-state something that the Supreme Court never even imagined, an abortion free-for-all with no limits, no protections, no recognition that the human beings killed by abortion matter at all. The post Michigan Court Says State Constitution Allows No Abortion Limits appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech.  Bhattacharya condemned pandemic censorship and discussed the vital importance of free speech among scientists during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier that aired on the May 8 edition of his show Special Report. “One of the main problems during the pandemic was censorship. Free speech is absolutely essential for scientific progress. If we had had [free speech] during the pandemic, we would have had much better outcomes,” he said. Bhattacharya added that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s vision for “gold standard science” is dependent on free speech, ending long-standing scientific “taboos” around topics like autism research.  [Story Continues on MRC Free Speech America] 

Over the weekend, the Cleveland Browns hosted their three-day rookie minicamp, where the team’s 2025 NFL draft picks, undrafted free agents, and tryout players got their first taste of NFL practices. One of those players was Shedeur Sanders, who, despite being a fifth-round draft pick, continues to be the talk of the league. Jason Whitlock speculates that the undeserved hype surrounding Sanders could be the very reason so many teams passed on him. “The amount of attention, the over-the-top adulation that is being given to a fifth-round draft choice right now, I think a lot of teams are looking at that and going, ‘That's exactly why he was off our board,”’ says “Fearless” contributor Steve Kim. Jason agrees, displaying an X post from a Shedeur fan praising him as a “good teammate” and “solid person” just because he took a picture with the tryout players. Other posts have sensationalized his minicamp performance and highlighted volunteer work he’s done, such as visiting a high school. “Some of this stuff on Twitter makes me think, like, this is bought-and-paid-for PR,” says Jason, speculating that these types of social media posts are “not organic” but rather a Deion-orchestrated PR campaign to rehab Shedeur’s reputation after his draft slide due to concerns about his attitude. While this facilitated hype around Shedeur might have fueled some of the distaste certain NFL teams felt toward him, the PR strategies might end up working to his advantage in the end. If Shedeuer ends up being a backup quarterback behind Dillon Gabriel, this hype could increase his trade value and make him desirable to other teams if their starting quarterback sustains an injury. Jason thinks that’s exactly what Deion and Shedeur are hoping for if he doesn’t land the starting position. “Deion and Shedeur and their marketing team realized that Shedeur’s reputation and the way he carried himself cost him 30, 40, 50 million dollars, and they're trying to rehabilitate this guy's image as a good teammate and a can't-miss talent,” says Jason. “I think they're hoping that someone has an injury during pre-season or early in the season and Shedeur has some trade value.” To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said that the investigation into the coronavirus pandemic isn't done with Anthony Fauci, after new revelations about laboratory funding. Paul made the comments in an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on his radio show Wednesday. The senator said that the change of guard at the Department of Health and Human Services meant new evidence was being produced from the pandemic era. 'It is our belief that Anthony Fauci had to sign the document. We haven't found the document yet because they've either been hidden or destroyed.' "Is anyone going to pay for the COVID thing?" asked Beck. “We’re not done, and I will bring Anthony Fauci back in. We’ve finally discovered the records as to who determined that the money went to Wuhan," Paul responded."They have resisted me for three years. Robert Kennedy has helped me get the records. So has Jay Bhattacharya. This week or next week I'm gonna begin interviewing the people that are on that committee. We're gonna find out what was the debate, what was the discussion, what were the arguments for sending it to Wuhan, what were the arguments against it," he added. "Who made the arguments? And then who ultimately had to sign off on this? It is our belief that Anthony Fauci had to sign the document. We haven't found the document yet because they've either been hidden or destroyed," Paul said. "There will be hell to pay," he concluded ominously. Paul's feud with Fauci has manifested in numerous rhetorical skirmishes that erupted during congressional hearings. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 until 2022. He was responsible for the U.S. health response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as the coronavirus pandemic. RELATED: Fauci says his critics 'deny reality,' embrace 'conspiracy theories' — but his supporters are 'guided by the truth' Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images In 2021, Fauci and Paul traded blows over whether the nation's top epidemiologist had lied to Congress when testifying that he had not signed off on funding for controversial gain-of-function research. Many believe the risky studies might have been responsible for a laboratory leak theorized to be the source of the coronavirus pandemic. "Dr. Fauci, as you are aware it is a crime to lie to Congress," Paul said at the time. "On your last trip to our committee on May 11, you stated that the NIH 'has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.' And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was funded by the NIH."Fauci and Paul went back and forth in debate over the evidence. "Sen. Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you're referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function," Fauci replied. "Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially," Fauci angrily declared. "You do not know what you are talking about."Fauci retired from his office and was pardoned by former President Joe Biden pre-emptively against any politically motivated charges that might be filed by the Trump administration. Some have since cast doubt on whether Biden had the mental capacity to sign the pardon and wondered if others falsified the signing. Here's the video of Paul's comments: “There WILL be hell to pay.” @RandPaul gives a fiery update on COVID investigations: “We’re not done, and I WILL bring Anthony Fauci back in. We’ve finally discovered the records as to who determined that the money went to Wuhan.” pic.twitter.com/MwVft0se7h— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) May 14, 2025 Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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