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Target's slogan is "Expect more." And when it comes to safety, customers do. That's why Americans are so upset with the company's outrageous April policy that threw open the changing room and bathroom doors to anyone of either sex. Almost immediately, angry calls started streaming into to stores, eventually ballooning into a nationwide protest of more than 1.3 million people. If other CEOs were considering similar changes, they saw the heat Target was taking and backed off.
Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) told reporters last year that she wasn't "beholden" to pro-life groups. But [Tuesday] night, she found out she was beholden to someone else: voters. The North Carolina politician stunned everyone in 2015 when the self-styled "pro-lifer" pulled the rug out from under a bill she supported in 2013 just hours before it was set to pass the House.
There's enough crime in New York City without the mayor adding potential for more! Unfortunately for locals, Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the most reliable shills for President Obama's social engineering, is too busy waving rainbow flags to see the *red* flags associated with his agenda. Just when you thought liberals couldn't be more out of touch with America, Mayor de Blasio managed to shock everyone with the news that the Big Apple isn't just changing its bathroom policy — it's encouraging people to use it!
Thirty-two years ago today, President Ronald Reagan stood above the rocky crags of Normandy, France and commemorated the largest and most significant military operation in the 20th Century. To the brave men who survived D-Day, he said, "You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? ...What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love... You all knew that some things are worth dying for."
Which is more dangerous: facing ISIS or flying the equipment there? These days, it's a toss-up. Thanks to eight years of neglect, the military that was once the envy of the world has been reduced to dilapidated fleets and aircraft that probably pose a greater risk to our troops than the enemy itself. That's what we get under a president more concerned about who our service members sleep with than the resources they have to do their jobs.
FRC's Lt. General Jerry Boykin has spent his career staring down cowards — and he isn't about to stop now! Not even when the same Army he served is trying to take away the freedom he sought to protect. Fresh off of winning his position back at Hampden-Sydney College (over the protests of LGBT activists), the radical Left still hasn't learned its lesson. Desperate to discredit the Special Forces vet, a familiar foe is pulling his typical stunts — this time at Kansas's Fort Riley, where General Boykin was scheduled to speak at a base prayer breakfast next Monday.
The president always claimed he wanted to unite people. And now, his bathroom edict finally has! Unfortunately for him, the country's consensus is vastly different than his own. In the two weeks since the Obama administration announced its gender free-for-all, parents, leaders, and activists across America are lining up to fight back. Sick of seeing children's safety sacrificed on the altar of radical sexualism, governors and attorneys general are drawing a line at their borders and telling the White House: Keep out!
Obamacare is getting a premium check-up — but it's consumers who are starting to feel sick. After more than a half-decade of the president's spectacular failure, health care insurers can't make a living — and Americans are forking over theirs for the most basic of coverage. Now, desperate to stop the financial bleeding, insurance companies are turning to states for permission to raise premiums, in some cases as much as 58 percent!
"Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.) decided to muddy the Water bill with a controversial LGBT amendment."
If Ohio is the bellwether of America, then the president's agenda is in a heap of trouble. The Buckeye State isn't about to stand back and let the Obama administration take its schools hostage to a transgender agenda that puts its students at risk. This morning, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine joined the chorus of state leaders resisting the tyranny of the Departments of Justice and Education for its order that schools open their showers, bathrooms, and locker rooms to boys and girls — no matter how unsafe or uncomfortable it may make them.
House Democrats don't care about passing the Energy and Water bill — only *carrying* the water for the radical Left. That was more than obvious over the last 24 hours, when the president's party launched an all-out assault on what should have been one of the least controversial appropriations debates of the year. In a desperate attempt to make a political point, Rep. Sean Maloney (D-N.Y.) decided to muddy the Water bill with a controversial LGBT amendment.
President Obama's transgender order is moving all right — from the classroom to the courtroom! Thanks to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the rocky road just got rockier for the administration trying to bully public schools and universities with its twisted agenda. Two weeks into the outrage caused by the Justice and Education Departments' order that districts open their locker rooms and showers to both genders, the nationwide outcry is only growing. Furious that the president would try to take students hostage to its radical agenda, dozens of local and state governments are fighting back.
After the last seven and a half years, it's safe to say that the greatest threat to our military is the administration in charge of it. The legacy of the Obama administration will not be advancing the war against global jihad, but rather advancing the culture war — which started with the toppling of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and continued on to the latest phase of the military's sexual revolution: open transgenderism and opening the draft to women. In this administration, gender isn't just being redefined in bathrooms, but on battlefields, where this president seems all too content to assign America's wives and daughters to the most dangerous ground combat units in the world.
Republican voters haven't been this active in a presidential primary season since 1980, Pew Research Center says. And about half of that sky-high turnout comes from the influential bloc of evangelical voters — who, many fear, could make their biggest impact this November by doing nothing at all. Six months away from deciding Barack Obama's successor, plenty of conservatives have yet to decide if they can or will support the GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
Almost every day, FRC is defending the freedom of someone to live out their faith at work. But it's not every day that the person is one of our own. When Lt. General Jerry Boykin (U.S. Army-Ret.) retired from the military, he had no idea he'd still be fighting for the freedoms he spent 36 years defending. But at FRC, our Executive Vice President likes to say that he left the Army to join the culture war. And this week, that war came right to his front door.
Twenty-sixteen was supposed to be many things — but the Year of the Bathroom? America has the president and his party to thank for that, as they squander their remaining months ascending a different kind of throne. Unfortunately, the White House's obsession with redefining gender has turned out to be one of the worst political miscalculations of the Obama era.
What kind of country forces Marines to scavenge parts to keep their planes flying, but has no problem paying for *new* parts for the gender-confused? Yours! Welcome to the sick world of the Obama administration, where taxpayer-funded sex changes are just the latest example of a presidency completely off the rails.
While most Americans' work day is almost over, the House's is just beginning. Members have been gearing up for an all-nighter since last week, when the two Armed Services Committees sent their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the floor, where the caffeine will be flowing until the wee hours of Wednesday.
Conservatives have wanted to eliminate the Department of Education for decades. And Thursday, President Obama gave them the best reason yet. The agency's outrageous order that public schools ignore the basic biology of their students in the use of bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers may have finally awakened a sleeping giant. Parents, governors, House and Senate leaders, religious groups, and superintendents are incensed that the White House would threaten to pull funding for children's education over something as ridiculous and unpopular as gender-free restrooms.
Parents across the country woke up to a nightmare [Friday] morning that most of them never thought possible: their own government trying to shatter the privacy of every child in America. In an announcement entirely fitting with Friday the 13th, the Obama administration is helping voters reach a new threshold of outrage with a decree insisting that every public school force students into the humiliating situation of sharing restrooms, locker rooms, and showers with members of the opposite sex.
