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Vice President Kamala Harris’ previous stance on reparations could cause problems in her coalition as the November election approaches. Harris, at multiple points in her 2020 campaign for president and during her time as a senator, appeared to endorse the idea of giving some sort of reparations to the descendants of slaves, though her campaign has not responded to recent requests on whether or not she still supports the idea. The issue puts Harris in a bind as a commanding majority of Americans oppose reparations, but African Americans, who make up a key part of the Democratic coalition, overwhelmingly support the idea. “I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we can discuss what that is,” Harris told The Root, a black publication, in 2019. “We’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race. And there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct [the] course.” Harris also told a radio host in 2019 that she supported reparations, and later reaffirmed her support for the policy in a statement to The New York Times that same year. “We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities,” she said in a statement shared with the NYT. “I’m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.” Harris avoided going into the specifics about what her reparations policies would look like while on the 2020 campaign trail. She co-sponsored a bill during her time in the Senate that would have created a commission to study reparations for slavery in 2019, and a year prior proposed a tax credit for black households, according to Politico. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond when the Daily Caller News Foundation asked about the vice president’s position on reparations. Reparations are deeply unpopular with the general public, as 70% of Americans opposed the federal government making payments to people who had enslaved ancestors, according to a 2023 Washington Post/Ipsos poll. In the same poll, however, 75% of African Americans expressed support for reparations. Other polls, like those conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Associated Press, also show Americans in general opposing reparations, while black individuals strongly support such measures. “Not all Democrats have come out in favor of reparations, and you can find lots of different quotes from people saying they’re against them,” Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari told The Washington Post. “Why stoke an intra party fight when you could just keep highlighting things your opponents have done that are unpopular, like book bans and changing the way people teach history?” Quentin James, president of the Collective PAC, a committee that supports black Democrats, also cautioned Harris against taking a stance on the issue, according to the Post. “I don’t think we need to start that conversation before the election,” he said. Some on Harris’ left-flank, however, argue that a commitment to reparations would help shore up support among the black community. “There are people who support this and would be more politically engaged if this were a part of our political discourse,” Democratic New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman told the Post as he was lobbying Democrats in January to take up reparations as a national issue. “But it isn’t, so they’re staying home or some are even moving to the Republican Party because it feels like Democrats are taking Black voters for granted.” A CNN exit poll shows that President Joe Biden won 92% of the black vote in Pennsylvania in 2020, going on to win the state overall by just 1.2 points. In Georgia, Biden defeated former President Donald Trump by a margin of less than 12,000 votes, but won 88% of the black vote, according to the NYT. Pennsylvania and Georgia will very likely be among the states that determine the outcome of November’s election. The post Kamala Harris’ Past Support for ‘Reparations’ Could Come Back to Haunt Her appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The city of Huntington Beach is set to file a lawsuit against California’s “unconstitutional” law requiring school districts to hide students’ gender identity from their parents, the city’s attorney tells The Daily Signal. The Southern California beach community’s City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday night establishing itself as a “Parents’ Right to Know” city. The ordinance allows Huntington Beach city attorney Michael Gates to challenge Assembly Bill 1955, which Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in mid-July. AB 1955 overrules any school board policies that require transparency with parents about their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In response, the Huntington Beach’s ordinance prohibits educators from hiding information about students’ sexual orientation or gender identity from parents. “It sends a signal to our community in Huntington Beach of 200,000 residents that we are a ‘Parents’ Right to Know’ city, and that educators should not interfere in the parent-child relationship,” Gates told The Daily Signal. Parents Right to Know OrdDownload Gates invited parents aggrieved by AB 1955 to approach the city about teaming up for its lawsuit against California over the state statute. “We are going to do everything in our power to protect our parents and our children and our city,” Gates said, “because the state has really run afoul of the law and its policies, and has been overreaching beyond constitutional bounds for years, and it’s about time that somebody or someone stands up against the state.” Huntington Beach is a charter city, meaning the California Constitution authorizes it to govern itself on municipal affairs. The ordinance argues that the protection of parents and children is a perfect example of a municipal matter, as it concerns the rights of Huntington Beach parents. “The people of Huntington Beach have a right to govern Huntington Beach municipal affairs and challenge the State’s attempt to assert authority of municipal affairs,” the ordinance reads. As a charter city, Huntington Beach has “an interest in protecting the people of the city, including protecting the parents and the children of the city from the state’s unconstitutional interference,” Gates said. The “Right to Know” ordinance “maintains the status quo,” Gates said. “In other words, it puts back the relationship that existed prior to AB 1955. The city recognizes [AB] 1955 was unconstitutional in the first place.” The ordinance argues a parent’s right to make decision concern their children’s upbringing and education is protected under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and upheld by Supreme Court precedent. “The state has a right to govern education, but it does not have a right to interfere with parent-child communications, or the relationship, especially as it relates to very personal private matters,” Gates said. “Our children do not belong to the state,” the lawyer continued. “They belong to the parents.” Huntington Beach Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark said if the state sues the city over the ordinance, she is prepared to take that on. “They [the state] don’t like any dissension,” Van Der Mark told The Daily Signal. “Every time we’ve done something they don’t like, they sue us. And I’m hoping that parents come together and say, ‘We’re ready to push back.’ And if that’s the case, we’re ready to take that on.” “This is all about government overreach,” she continued, “and it’s ridiculous that we have to do this. We would not have ever had to bring our ‘Parents’ Right to Know’ ordinance forward if it wasn’t for [state lawmakers in] Sacramento overstepping into our boundaries.” Van Der Mark expects other cities will follow Huntington Beach’s lead in protecting parental rights in response to AB 1955. “If Huntington Beach weren’t to stand up and push back, and if other cities don’t stand up and push back, we will get steamrolled,” Gates said, “and the state will have its way with every city, even on local issues or personal and private issues between a parent and child.” The California Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. This article will be updated if a response is received. The post Huntington Beach Poised to Sue California Over Radical Anti-Parental Rights Law appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A Haitian who was allowed to fly and be released into the United States through a heavily scrutinized federal program has been arrested for allegedly molesting a minor in Massachusetts.Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin first reported 18-year-old Akim Marc Desire was arrested for the crime by police in Mansfield. Desire flew into Miami on June 4, 2023, through the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole program, which allows individuals of those nationalities to avoid crossing the southern border illegally by having a sponsor in the United States.The victim allegedly assaulted by Desire is a 10-year-old boy who lived near him. Desire is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.'Instead of scrapping the clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue.'Melugin noted this is now the second time in recent months in which a Haitian who was allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV program has been charged with a sex crime against a child in Massachusetts.Since the start of the CHNV program in early 2023, nearly 500,000 people have avoided the southern border and flown directly into the U.S. The program was temporarily paused in August after mass fraud by applicants and sponsors had been discovered. Examples of fraud included social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers being reused hundreds of times, along with 3,218 serial sponsors filling out 100,948 forms. Phone numbers belonging to dead people had also been used.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced the restart of the process with new safeguards now in place to prevent fraud.“It should come as no surprise that the Biden-Harris administration has rushed to restart its unlawful CHNV mass-parole scheme, despite the clear evidence of fraud permeating the program. The CHNV program, along with the use of the CBP One app at the Southwest border, has helped the president and his border czar play a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise-inadmissible aliens to simply cross at ports of entry instead of between them," House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said in a statement."Instead of scrapping the clearly flawed program, the department is allowing it to continue without rooting out the fraud or putting adequate safeguards in place to prevent exploitation by sponsors here in the United States. But fundamentally, there would be no fraud to prevent if DHS simply stopped importing 30,000 inadmissible aliens every month in the first place," he added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Yesterday, the Tennessee Star published 90 pages from the journal belonging to the Covenant School shooter. The document contains entries from January 2023 to the day of the shooting, March 27, 2023. Davis Hunt, founder and editor of the Pamphleteer, joins Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel to discuss the leak. - YouTube www.youtube.com “What were the new details that we learned today that we previously didn't know?” Jill asks. “I don't know that there was anything revelatory,” says Hunt. “We kind of already knew that she had some animus towards Steven Crowder's leak” and certainly toward “white Christians.” “I looked over it. I didn't read the whole thing. I don't really care to spend my waking hours digging through the thoughts of a deranged person, so I tried to stay away from it, but the clips that I did see kind of confirmed what we already knew,” he continues. Blaze Media’s editor in chief Matthew Peterson, however, isn’t so sure avoiding the document is the best call. “I guess what you're saying is it pretty much, when you look at it, confirms everything that you thought was true — this is a person who bore animosity towards Christianity, white people, as well as heterosexuals who were opposed to the trans movement. Is that correct?” he asks. “Yeah, I think that’s generally correct. ... It was an act of violence carried out against a specific group of people; it wasn't random. It's not like she went to a mall or some other public gathering place. She went to a private Christian school that she was familiar with,” Hunt explains, adding that this opinion has been “somewhat controversial.” “Is there one part that stood out for you as you did go through [the released document]?” asks Jill. “There was a lot of very weird, kind of racial ideology bundled up in there that was maybe unexpected,” says Hunt. “I'll be honest with the [Blaze] audience,” says Peterson. “We've had a policy for a long time not to highlight or quote from these sorts of manifestos.” “The environment has changed though,” he acknowledges. “In this manifesto, maybe the most chilling part I've heard so far is not even all the crazy hatred of her own community” but rather “the lack of normal human emotion ... and that makes me think: What should the policy be for media today?” Hunt explains that according to the Violence Project’s research, the one thing school shooters have in common besides “self-evident mental issues” is that “they all studied the actions of previous school shooters.” “They all draw a lot of influence from each other,” he says, pointing to Columbine as the “core incident that ignited” the tragic movement. Ultimately, Hunt thinks that “minimal coverage” is probably the best route. “You're naturally curious about what would drive someone to do this and in a way, it's kind of perversely compelling to try to understand why these things happen and what would drive someone to do that,” he explains, but he nonetheless thinks it’s best to keep the psychoanalysis to a minimum because Hale’s motives were “self-evident” based on who she targeted. “Let me go to the other side of the coin here,” Peterson counters. “I think the problem is that [Hale’s journal] was held up for what — a year and a half? The government was threatening to put this journalist in jail for revealing it” likely because it would lead to “one side of the ledger being blamed.” He explains that more often than not, these shooters are “politicized” in that “they're drenched in some weird ideology” — in Hale’s case, trans, anti-white ideology. “The problem is in this case that the government wanted to hide one side and promote a narrative about the other,” leading a lot of people to say, “Just let it out.” To hear Hunt’s response, watch the episode above. Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Bud Light has taken off its beer goggles. The massive brand has learned a few lessons from its costly Dylan Mulvaney experiment. Among them: Fake chicks don't sell beer. In a bid to transition from the ensuing boycott, Bud Light has hired comic Shane Gillis to star in a commercial that hearkens back to the kind of campaign that helped make it a household name. Bud Light owner Anheuser-Busch had this to say about the partnership with Gillis: Bud Light and football just go together. From the tailgate to the celebratory cheers in the stands to the round for friends at the bar, Bud Light is showing up for 21+ fans on gameday. Now, to rally college football fans across the country, Bud Light is introducing a new campaign in partnership with actor and comedian Shane Gillis, who stars and co-writes alongside longtime comedy partner John McKeever, who also directed the new content rolling out throughout the college football season.'Bud Light came all the way back – UFC, Shane Gillis. Let's go!'Titled "The Dean’s Office," the spot depicts a star football player called before college authorities to answer accusations of plagiarism. The dean offers him a bucket of Bud Light if he makes a confession. No sooner is he about to oblige then his football coach (Gillis) butts in to confess his own embarrassing secret — and claim his reward. Soon, everyone including the dean is making confessions — anything for a precious Bud Light. The new beer ad was co-written by Gillis and longtime comedy partner John McKeever. The commercial also stars Steve Gerben — who co-stars with Gillis on the "Tires" sitcom. "I like football and beer, especially Bud Light. It was fun to work with McKeever and Steve on this," Gillis said of the advertisement. The commercial began airing August 31 during college football games on NBC, ABC, and ESPN. Following the Dylan Mulvaney debacle, Bud Light dropped from the top-selling beer to the third, while parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev lost roughly $1.4 billion in sales since the transgender activist controversy.Alissa Heinerscheid, marketing VP behind the ill-fated Mulvaney campaign, has said she chose the bizarre spokesman as a way to correct the brand's "fratty ... out-of-touch humor.""And we had this hangover. I mean, Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach," Heinerscheid declared before being replaced. Despite many celebrities dumping Bud Light over the Dylan Mulvaney boycott, Gillis continued to drink the controversial beer brand. "Bud Light came all the way back — UFC, Shane Gillis. Let's go! I mean, that's a good move," Joe Rogan noted on his podcast. "Listen, I'm so happy. It just made so much sense. You never let them go. You never bailed on them," Rogan told Gillis. "In the heart of all the craziness, you never bailed on them. Kid Rock is shooting cases of it."Rogan pitched the idea of Gillis being the new spokesperson for Bud Light during an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" in May 2023.In March, Bud Light became the official beer sponsor of UFC.The red-hot stand-up comedian has been on a massive winning streak after he was fired from "Saturday Night Live" in 2019. Gillis was fired from "SNL" just four days after being hired after it was reported that he made remarks deemed to be racist during an episode of his "Matt & Shane's Secret Podcast." The talented comedian self-funded his first comedy special — “Shane Gillis: Live in Austin” — that has garnered more than 31 million views on YouTube. His comedy special “Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs” was a top-10 Netflix show in 2023. The Gillis-led scripted comedy series "Tires" debuted as Netflix's second-most watched show in May and has already been renewed for a second season.Gillis stars in the online "Gilly and Keeves" comedy skit show. "Matt & Shane's Secret Podcast" is the most popular podcast on Patreon. Despite being terminated by "SNL," Gillis hosted "Saturday Night Live" in February. And he just capped off a successful stand-up tour — sponsored by Bud Light.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!