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Senate’s rush to regulate AI chatbots is bad for everybody

Congress can regulate AI without gutting free speech but the GUARD Act risks censorship, compelled speech, and mandatory ID checks.

USPS Slashes Quarterly Losses by $1.3 Billion

The postal service suffered a net loss of $9 billion last year.

Protesters Challenge Tranny Sports Policy in Commiefornia…

( The Center Square )–The California Family Council led a protest Saturday outside Yorba Linda High School ahead of the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Track and Field Preliminary meet, urging the California Interscholastic Federation to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
Speakers at the Orange County press conference Saturday included Sophia Lorey, a former CIF and collegiate athlete and outreach director for the California Family Council; Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board and a Republican candidate for state superintendent of public instruction; and multiple female athletes who were competing in Saturday’s athletic events.

Self-Censorship and the Silenced Generation

Are America’s college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens? An Ivy League professor—an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech—recently warned me about what’s happening in classrooms like his. He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class—but students are afraid to speak, not…

New Jersey’s Second Amendment Catch-22

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/05/10/new-jerseys-second-amendment-catch-22-n1232478

Dispute erupts over California bill nicknamed ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’…

After Republican lawmakers in California’s Legislature nicknamed her immigration bill the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta stressed the legislation aims to protect workers of immigrant service organizations, not silence journalists.
“Sharing the name and address of a front desk worker of a legal aid clinic to intimidate them out of doing their job isn’t journalism, no matter who does it,” Bonta, D-Oakland, told The Center Square through a spokesperson, who shared the lawmaker’s comments in a text.

Mamdani’s Tax Day Vid Backfires as Businesses Look to Escape New York

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city. It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired. While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing…

Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use Gun in Crime

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than firearms used in crime.

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