Lou Dobbs has died at age 78. He was a true patriot who fought to protect American sovereignty and a big Trump supporter. Donald Trump paid tribute to Dobbs as “a friend, and truly incredible Journalist, Reporter, and Talent” in a post on his social media site: “He understood the World, and what was ‘happening,’ […] The post A Great American Has Died: RIP Lou Dobbs appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that protects children from viewing sexually explicit performances. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a group challenging a Tennessee law shielding kids from being exposed to sexually explicit drag shows lacked standing. A Memphis-based theater group called Friends of George’s had sued to overturn the law, claiming that it violated the First Amendment. “But the law in this area is clear—there is no constitutional interest in exhibiting indecent material to minors,” wrote Judge John Nalbandian in the majority decision. “The only constitutionally protected expressions implicated by the [law] are adult-oriented performances that can be constitutionally restricted from minors but not from adults—a narrow slice of speech.” In a dissenting opinion, Judge Andre Mathis said that the law was a restriction on the First Amendment. The law was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2023 and signed by GOP Governor Bill Lee. In June of 2023, a federal judge blocked the law from going into effect, saying that it was “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad.” According to a summary of the law, it “creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.” Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti celebrated the court’s ruling in a statement. “Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act has been consistently misrepresented since its adoption,” said Skrmetti. “As a state overflowing with world-class artists and musicians, Tennessee respects the right to free expression. But as the Court noted, Tennessee’s ‘harmful to minors’ standard is constitutionally sound and Tennessee can absolutely prohibit the exhibition of obscene material to children. The Court of Appeals focused on what the law actually says and ordered the case dismissed.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Republican leadership in the state also weighed in, applauding the ruling. “Children should never be exposed to strip shows. In TN, they won’t be,” said House Majority Leader William Lamberth.

This baby adorably jamming out to I Like to Move It is exactly what you needed to see today! Emily Suttles shared a video on TikTok that shows the moment her son, Brooks, realizes his favorite song is about to play. As he’s cruising by with a walker, Emily asks Alexa to play the catchy tune. And as soon as she requests it, Brooks stops everything. After doing a quick happy jig, the excited baby sat down and prepared for the beat to drop. When it did, he threw his hand up in the air and showed off his best moves. “He gets his dance moves from his dad,” Emily captioned. @em_suttles He gets his dance moves from his dad #momsoftiktok #momlife #fypage #fy #dancingbaby #boymom #relatable #mom ♬ original sound – Emily Suttles “He was ready before the song came on,” a commenter joked. “The hand in the air is the cutest thing,” someone shared. “When he put his hand up in the air, you could feel the vibe ,” wrote an amused watcher. “I Like To Move It” Is The Baby’s Happy Song Emily told Newsweek that Brooks was immediately obsessed with I Like To Move It. The first time the baby heard it, he started to dance. The song plays in their house “at least once a day.” And if he’s in a bad mood, it will quickly lift his spirits. “He hates car rides,” she said. “So it’s the only song we play in the car. Depending on the distance, we listen to it anywhere from two to 10 times.” Emily’s dancing baby video has already earned over 22 million views in 10 days. His reaction to I Like To Move It makes people as happy as the song makes him. “OMG, HE IS KILLING ME!!!!!” someone commented. “This has made my day!!” “He going to be the life of every party ,” a fan wrote. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Dancing Baby “Knows How To Party” When His Jam Comes On appeared first on InspireMore.

The Kiffin v. Finebaum beef continues

Bangladesh has carried out ‘a near-total national internet shutdown’

He is suing his alma mater for permitting and perpetuating antisemitism on campus, a Harvard University graduate said Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Shabbos Kestenbaum, a first-generation American and Orthodox Jew, told delegates from the convention stage that after Hamas’ brutal terrorist attacks Oct. 7 inside Israel, he placed 1,200 Israeli and American flags on Harvard’s campus in honor of the dead.  The flags “were all vandalized within 24 hours,” his peers harassed him for being a Jew, and he received death threats online, Kestenbaum, 25, said in Milwaukee as one of the “everyday Americans” featured each night at the GOP convention. “Students and professors [at Harvard] have openly called for new, Hamas-style attacks against the United States,” he said.   It was “perhaps most damning,” Kestenbaum said, that Harvard refused to condemn the Oct. 7 attacks “when Hamas terrorists butchered 45 American citizens” and “took 12 Americans hostage.”  Having voted once before for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for president, the Harvard graduate said, he now sees how the radical Left has abandoned both the Jewish people and most Americans.  Kestenbaum said the Democratic Party he registered to vote for on his 18th birthday “has become ideologically poisoned,” and that poison is contaminating too many American students. He said he went to Harvard to study religion—the foundation of Western civilization—but found “not theology, but a contempt for it.” He said he was in an environment that was “anti-Western,” “anti-American,” and “antisemitic.”    His problem with Harvard “is not its liberalism, but its illiberalism” and the fact that Harvard students “are taught not how to think, but what to think,” Kestenbaum told the crowd in Fiserv Forum. He said that “far-left, antisemitic extremism has no virtue, and the radicalism on our campuses and on our streets has no moral legitimacy.” Kestenbaum proclaimed his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his “policies to expel foreign students who violate our laws, harass our Jewish classmates, and desecrate our freedoms.”  Kestenbaum concluded his speech by encouraging Americans to elect a president who understands that Jews never will abandon the United States “because Jewish values are American values and American values are Jewish values.” The post Jewish Harvard Grad Decries Campus Antisemitism in Speech to GOP Convention appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden administration announced Thursday it would forgive $1.2 billion in student debt held by 35,000 public service workers. President Joe Biden will have forgiven $168.5 billion across 4.76 million student loan borrowers following the most recent round of debt relief, according to the Department of Education. The billions in debt relief comes as the president lags in the polls behind former President Donald Trump and as he faces calls from within his party to drop out of the presidential election due to perceived electoral weakness. Some Republicans have criticized the Biden administration’s debt forgiveness programs as a ploy to provide financial incentives to vote for them. “It’s clear there is vote buying going on at a scale we’ve never seen before,” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, said during a CNN interview in May. “Citizens understand those are like free election payoffs. Those are like ‘Hey, folks, please vote for us because we’re relieving your debt.’ At what point does it cross over from programs like student debt [forgiveness] to just vote buying?” The White House, however, contends that student debt relief is a useful mechanism to “ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” according to a Thursday press release. Debt forgiven under Thursday’s order will apply to beneficiaries who qualify under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, a nearly two-decade-old initiative that was expanded under the Biden administration to make it easier for government employees to qualify for relief, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Nonprofit employees, teachers, nurses, law enforcement officials, and first responders are among those covered by the PSLF, Axios reported. Prior to the Biden administration, only about 7,000 people had received relief through the PSLF since 2007, according to Axios. That total has surged to 946,000 under Biden. Though the Supreme Court blocked Biden’s flagship student loan relief program in June 2023, the president has still managed to cancel billions of dollars in debt by diverting overhauling existing programs like the PSLF, CNN reported. The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Biden Wipes Out Another $1.2 Billion in Student Debt as He Fights to Stay in 2024 Race appeared first on The Daily Signal.

This week, Donald Trump officially becomes the Republican nominee. Soon, he is likely to again be president, according to the most accurate predictions, which come from people who put their money where their mouths are—people who bet. They currently give Trump a 67% chance of winning. President Joe Biden’s chances have fallen below 20%. This is good news to those of us who fear America is gradually being strangled by ever-increasing regulations. Trump promises to get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew about the thicket of rules that often make it nearly impossible to get things done. But Republicans routinely talk about deregulation and then add rules. The media called George W. Bush the “anti-regulator.” But once Bush was president, he appointed thousands of new regulators. Trump was different. Once in office, he hired regulation skeptics. He told government agencies: Get rid of two regulations for every new one you add! But they didn’t. Growth of regulation slowed under Trump, but it still increased. Still, I think Trump’s anti-regulation attitude was why stock prices rose and unemployment dropped. He sent a message to businesses: Government will no longer crush you! Businesses then started hiring more people. Of course, the media weren’t happy. Reporters love regulation. The New York Times ran the headline, “Donald Trump Is Trying to Kill You”! Regulation advocates don’t understand that regulations’ unintended side effects often outweigh the good the regulation was supposed to do. Cars built smaller (to comply with Democrats’ rules that require increased gas mileage) kill people. That’s because smaller cars provide less protection in crashes. “Should the government tell you what kind of car to buy?” complained Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform in a video I made about Trump. Norquist says that Trump largely kept his deregulation promise, and that was great for America. For example, Trump repealed the Obama-era plan to classify franchise businesses like McDonald’s as one single business. Why was that good? “Trial lawyers want to be able to sue all McDonald’s, not just the local McDonald’s, if they spill coffee on themselves,” says Norquist. “Labor unions want to unionize all McDonald’s, not just one store. That would have been a disaster.” Trump’s Federal Communications Commission repealed Barack Obama’s “net neutrality” rules, which slowed the growth of internet options by limiting providers’ freedom to charge different prices. Democrats screamed. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted that repeal would mean “the end of the internet as we know it.” Instead, none of the terrible things predicted (they’ll cut you off!) happened. Innovation continued. The internet just got better. Yet now the Biden administration wants net neutrality reinstated. It also wants to ban election betting, the useful mechanism that gives us better predictions about the future, and the election odds I quoted above. Regulators give their repression nice names to make their rules sound valuable: Today they propose a Data Privacy Protection Act, a Cybersecurity Resilience Act, Fair Lending For All Act, etc. “The names for these regulations are written by regulators,” laughs Norquist. “They’re advertisements for themselves,” He jokes that regulators should, like drug companies, list side effects of their rules: “May cause unemployment, reduce wages, raise the cost of energy … .” Trump’s deregulation record would be better if he hadn’t added new regulations, like tariffs, at the same time. “Trump is a protectionist in many ways,” says Norquist, sadly. “Tariffs are taxes, and regulations on the border are regulations on consumers.” When Trump took office, he announced, “We have cut 22 regulations for every one new regulation!” But it’s not true. America’s deep state is hard to fight. Many of the 22 million Americans who work for government think they’re not doing their job if they don’t regulate more. Despite Trump’s promises, he left America with more regulations than we had when he took office. I hope a future President Trump will cut his tariffs and agricultural subsidies, and kill the Export-Import Bank, drug prohibition, and thousands of other rules that do more harm than good. Every repealed regulation is a step toward freedom. COPYRIGHT 2024 BY JFS PRODUCTIONS INC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Deregulatory Promises, Past and Future appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Team Biden Nukes Obama, Schumer, Pelosi: They Gave Us Trump in 2016!

Morning Joe Retreats: Get Biden Out of the Race