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Today, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, or Webb) reaches its position in solar orbit. Launched on Christmas Day from Kourou in French Guiana on an Ariane 5ECA rocket, the seven-ton Webb represents the most sophisticated instrument ever conceived for measuring the cosmos.

Its infrared and spectroscopic sensors are designed to peer into the visible universes edge roughly a quarter- to a half-billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe became optically transparent (an event called recombination). Prior to this, scientists posit the ionized universe was too hot to enable stable atoms to form.

To provide some perspective, 500 million years is as distant from the present as when trilobites first appeared, but represents less than 4 percent of the universes estimated age. The infrared spectrumwith light wavelengths somewhat longer than the visible spectrumis also less opaque for interstellar dust, enabling astronomers to see celestial objects otherwise obscured from earth.

As the universe expands, the light from distant celestial objects decreases in frequency, so the visible ultraviolet photons upon reaching our instruments have stretched their wavelengths into the infrared or even microwave bands. Stephen C. Meyer, the author of Return of the God Hypothesis, explains Webbs importance to improved cosmic understanding in our ongoing quest for knowledge.

Webbs final destination corresponds to its second Lagrange Point, almost 1 million miles beyond home and four times our distance to the moon. For those who skipped orbital mechanics in college, the gravitational attraction by a pair of massive bodies presents nodes, where a small object can hover at its relative position to its much larger neighbors.

Each binary system has five such nodes, called Lagrange Points. The second such position, called L2, is situated behind earth in relation to the sun. At this location, earths dark side perpetually faces Webb.

As a cooperative venture by NASA Goddard, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency, the JWST project presented major design engineering and integration challenges across its quarter-century development. To exploit an additional 13 percent increase in initial velocity from earths rotation, Webb passed through the Panama Canal following final evaluation in Redondo Beach, California to launch near the Amazon mouth rather than from Cape Canaveral.

Webb represents a technological marvel designed for unforgiving requirements to operate hundreds of components without error. This monumental engineering accomplishment combines a photon collector and an equipment assembly under contract to Northrop Grumman.

Solar panels provide two kilowatts of power, about half that used by a lawnmower. A primary mirror gathers photons that then reflect through a secondary mirror for directing to infrared detectors.

Supported by a carbon-fiber truss, the primary mirror comprises 18 gold-plated hexagonal tiles designed to flex and tilt via motors. These tiles are composed of beryllium (recall the power control sphere from Galaxy Quest), which is both lightweight and stiff. Their total starlight collection area is 48 square feetfive times that of the Hubble Space Telescope (at launch in 1990), despite Webb weighing only 60 percent as much.

To ensure adequate infrared sensitivity, an ingenious sun shield passively cools Webbs mirror tiles to 388 degrees Fahrenheit. With the area of a tennis court, the sun shield faces earth and sun, deflecting and reradiating the suns energy away from the primary mirror.

Behind the sun shield, a carbon-fiber container called the spacecraft bus stores communication and instrumentation equipment. After arriving at L2, control systems on board will align and calibrate the tiles to ensure proper focus.

Designing and fabricating the sun shield itself presented enormous difficulties. The sun shield comprises five sheets of Kapton polyimide plastic from DuPont coated with aluminum. The two outermost layers include an additional thin layer of silicon to reflect solar energy away from the mirrors.

Seams reinforce the sheets to inhibit lengthy rips when struck by micrometeorites. These sheets were folded origami-style into a 15-foot diameter cylinder to fit within the Ariane fairing. While boosted along Webbs trajectory towards L2, the sun shield had to then carefully unfurl via multiple cables and pulleys tugged by motors.

Although the sun shield protects the mirrors from solar radiation, the mid-IR detection instrument behind the primary mirror must be further cooled to 448 degrees Fahrenheit. An acoustic resonance chamber specifically configured for the Webb mission accomplishes this energy transfer. This cryocooler buffets helium atoms to thermally separate them and uses heat exchangers to radiate away the excess energy.

The telescopes namesake, James E. Webb (1906-1992), served as NASAs second director. He was the man who guided the Apollo lunar program. A veteran of the Marine Corps, he vigorously defended manned space missions to skeptical congressional representatives and senators, handling life-threatening crises that arose during these breakneck developments. Leftist grievance activists sought to have the telescope renamed, but NASA declined to cave into these cancel culture demands.

Professor of chemistry Anna Krylov warns that politicizing technological endeavors disrupts scientific discovery. Refusing to recognize predecessors whose achievements have provided astounding improvements in society is a hallmark of dclass grifters envious of others who possess the skill and self-discipline to embark on such difficult assignments.

Although their intimidation shakedowns have infiltrated Lockheed and Raytheon management, one can expect that many in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) community will resist this encroachment. Merely imagining STEM professionals reception of diversity charlatans banning terms such as blackbody radiation, white noise, and male and female fittings provokes considerable amusement.

The 20th-century German historian Oswald Spengler issued pessimistic predictions about the continuance of western culture in Decline of the West. Towards the end of that second volume, however, he glimpsed a distinctive observation regarding what he called the Machine that represents our technological civilization.

[T]he very existence of the industry depends upon talented rigorously schooled brains that command the technique and develop it onward. The quiet engineer is the machines master and destiny. When the crop of recruits for this army fails, the industry must flicker out.

Individual techies might be expendable, but they are not en masse. Without such persons, technology vanishes, and society descends to prehistoric subsistence. Alternatively, we can study Mandarin before the rush.

To accomplish socially significant projects like Webb, the STEM community depends on the broader polity by which compatible goals can be shared. Its interesting that Chinas tripling of its economy over the past three decades has been overseen by three science-minded executives since 1993: Jiang Zemin (electrical engineer), Hu Jintao (hydraulic engineer), and currently Xi Jinping (chemical engineer). Over the same period our presidentseither lawyers (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden) or businessmen (George W. Bush and Donald Trump)have carelessly squandered Americas global-influencing heritage and fecklessly imperiled her national security.

Webb presents a tremendous milestone in space exploration: a telescope with the power to peer even beyond Hubbles magnificent accomplishments. Future astronomy may envision subsequent celestial light-gathering devices assembled in low-earth orbit for even better insight into Gods creation. In the meantime, we can bask in the achievement of the teams of scientists and engineers who brought Webb to fruition.

G. W. Thielman has bachelors and masters degrees in engineering. He is currently employed as a patent attorney, and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His opinions are his own.

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Marxism, Anarchism, and the Black Radical Tradition, Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination, Trans-bodies in Horror Cinema, The Problem of Whiteness, and Transnational Queer Politics and Practices are not course titles invented by The Babylon Bee to mock the state of Americas universities. Rather, they are real classes I came across this year while scrolling through the course listings for the University of Chicagos winter quarter.

As a senior, I had flexibility in my schedule to take a class simply for the joy of learning, irrespective of whether it fulfilled a graduation requirement. This should have been an enjoyable experience. Instead, the process left me fearful of the close-minded young people being inculcated by my school and so many other academic institutions.

As a politically conservative student, I am accustomed to being in the classroom minority. To be clear, I was not looking for a course that would reinforce my conservative beliefs (even if I was, conservative classes simply do not exist). All I wanted was to take a class that was not explicitly partisan by its very title or course description.

I desired to be in a class where I would actually learn, with the help of a fair and open-minded professor who is intellectually confident enough to include multiple perspectives in his assigned readings. Unfortunately, it was incredibly easy to find swaths of leftist courses but quite difficult to come across classes aimed at genuine intellectual exploration.

There is a reason explicitly leftist courses like The Problem of Whiteness are prevalent, but it is impossible to take conservative classes and hard to even find open-minded ones. In recent years, conservative or middle-of-the-road professors have been weeded out or forced into self-censorship by a rigid, punitive academic culture. If a professor does not agree with the majority of his colleagues or dares to depart from left-wing orthodoxy, he is threatened and punished by fellow educators and students (even in the STEM fields).

While it is demoralizing for conservative students to never have our views and ideas discussed, much less validated, we at least have the advantage of constantly being intellectually challenged. Sadly, I cannot say the same for my leftist peers, who can fill their entire course schedule with classes that reaffirm their preconceived worldviews.

Graduating after being virtually unchallenged for four years is not only a disservice to students; its dangerous for our country. A 2017 study by P. J. Henry and Jaime Napier showed that education is related to greater ideological prejudice, finding that the higher ones education level, the stronger his political intolerance. This is the obvious byproduct of leftist thought saturating the academymore time spent there necessarily fosters a one-sided sense of intellectual superiority.

A more recent 2021 study done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education found that 66 percent of students said they supported shouting down speakers. Shockingly, 23 percent of student respondents support using violence to stop a speaker. Both numbers have spiked since 2020.

By indoctrinating and coddling young people, American universities are breeding intolerance. We are already seeing the effects of this indoctrination. Young leftists have disavowed our founding documents and fathers, and they censor, fire, harass, and publicly slander anyone who dares think differently from them.

Consider that our federal bureaucracies, the chambers of Congress, and the boardrooms of Americas most powerful corporations have only received the first wave of woke young people. Subsequent waves will be even more intolerant. Thanks to their immersion in the left-wing academic monoculture, the next generation will undoubtedly cement the downfall of the American mind and limit frighteningly more liberty in their wake.

This story was originally published in theChicago Thinker.

Evita Duffy is a senior contributor to The Federalist, co-founder of the Chicago Thinker, and a senior at the University of Chicago, where she studies American History. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, & her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evitapduffy@uchicago.edu

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Crazed Left-Wing Courses Signify The Downfall Of The American Mind - The Federalist

By Bob Leith

For The Ironton Tribune

Our second national government was called the Articles of Confederation. This government was ratified in 1781. This government, with a short life lasting until 1789, was purposely made weak and ineffective and each of the 13 states retained its sovereignty.

There was no president of the United States under this government. Men began talking about revising the articles. The Constitutional Convention met in 1787 to revise the Articles and make a stronger union. The Founding Fathers decided to submit a new frame of government and do away with the Articles.

After many suggestions, arguing and four compromises, the Founding Fathers hoped the states would ratify the newly-written U.S. Constitution. The new government, called for in this new constitution, went into effect March 4, 1789.

This government provided for a president and vice-president. Everyone knew George Washington would be the first president. In fact, he received every electoral vote from the Electoral College. No other president has received a unanimous electoral vote. There were no nationally-organized political parties until Washington and John Adams, his vice-president, took office.

Those who supported the new government were called Federalists and those who opposed the new constitution were called Anti-federalists. During Washingtons first term (1789-1793), political parties began to develop.

The leaders of the Federalist Party were Alexander Hamilton and Adams. Washington believed there was no need for political parties. He felt parties would harm the United States. Those around him considered him to be a Federalist, but he claimed no party affiliation.

The Federalists attitude toward the common people was summarized by John Jay when he wrote that those who own the country are most fit persons to participate in the government of it.Federalists blatantly stated that they were the party of the rich, well-born and able.

The Federalist Party only won the presidency one time. Adams was the only Federalist candidate to become a president. In the election of 1816, the Federalists nominated their last presidential candidate Rufus King, of New York. After this election, the Federalist Party virtually disappeared.

Thomas Jefferson left Washingtons cabinet and, along with James Madison, co-founded an opposing party to the Federalists. This opposition party was organized in 1793 and called the Republican Party out of respect to the Romans. This new party appealed to the small farmers, frontiersmen and small shop keepers not the rich, well-born, and able.

The Federalists, believing only they should govern the country, derisively called the Republicans Democratic-Republicans, affixing the Greek Democratic to Jeffersons original name of Republican.

Jefferson, Madison and James Monroe successfully won the presidency as Democratic-Republicans. When Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828, he dropped the word Republican and his party was simply called the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party divided into factions under Jackson, Adams and Henry Clay. The men who drew up the constitution did not forsee the rise of the two-party system, but its beginnings were found in the debate over ratification of the constitution.

The election of 1824 was the second instance where the results of the Electoral College did not produce a president. The two-party system had died and all of the principal candidates claimed to be Republicans.

In this election, state legislatures nominated men from their geographic regions (favorite son candidates. At the outset of this election, 17 candidates were considering running. Actually, there were six serious candidates left. One of the serious six, William Lowndes, had been nominated by the South Carolina legislature for president in 1821. He died at sea in 1822 and the field was narrowed to five.

The favorite of the five candidates was William H. Crawford, Monroes secretary of the treasury. He had been nominated by the King Caucus method. King Caucus was a method where members of the same party met behind closed doors and nominated men for the presidency and formulated policies.

Crawford, who was the official party candidate, was given the wrong medicine and suffered a paralytic stroke in 1823. One would think that a candidate who was half-paralyzed and half-blind would drop out of contention. He stayed in the race, but never did fully recover. With Crawford refusing to withdraw, the other four candidates would realistically seek the presidency.

From the west came two favorite sons. From Tennessee came Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans. He was the common peoples choice. His enemies considered him a hothead and called him a murderer. From Kentucky came Henry Clay, the Cock of Kentucky. He was a powerful speaker of the House. His enemies accused him of being a gambler and drunkard. He lost the presidency three times.

The favorite son of New England and New York was John Quincy Adams, son of Federalist president John Adams. He was Secretary of State and had a wealth of education and experience.

Lastly, there was John C. Calhoun, the favorite son of South Carolina. He was secretary of war from 1817-1825. After seeing Jacksons popularity, Calhoun consented to be nominated for the vice-presidency, willing to wait his turn. He would serve as vice president from 1825-1832.

The results of the election of 1824 were inconclusive in both the electoral vote and popular vote. Electorally, Jackson had 99, Adams 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. In the popular vote, Jackson had 154,000, Adams 109,000, Crawford 47,000 and Clay 47,000.

Not one candidate had an electoral majority. It took 131 electoral votes to become president. The 12th Amendment of the Constitution stated that, without an electoral majority, the top three vote getters names would be deliberated upon in the House of Representatives. Henry Clay was eliminated.

The House vote would occur on Feb 9. Each of the 24 states had one vote to be decided by the majority of the states representatives. The candidate who received 13 state votes in the House would be president. Results in the House would be affected heavily by the New York delegation and a man named Stephen Van Rensselaer III. The House of Representatives would elect a president on the first ballot.

Van Rensselaer (1764-1839), of New York, was part of his states delegation in the House of Representatives. He owned vast land holdings in New York, was lieutenant governor of New York and major general of the New York militia at the beginning of the War of 1812. He was very wealthy, extremely religious and was a proponent of higher education.

The word spread around Washington that the House delegation from New York was deadlocked 17-17. As a member of the House, he said he would vote for William H. Crawford as he had previously pledged. Speaker of the House Henry Clay felt Rensselaer could be persuaded to change his vote. When the New York delegation arrived on Feb. 9, 1825, Clay and Daniel Webster took Rensselaer into the speakers room and used their powers of persuasion.

Clay and Webster failed. Van Rensselaer was very nervous and confused just before the balloting. Before he cast his ballot, Rensselaer bowed his head in prayer and sought divine guidance about his vote. When he opened his eyes, he saw a slip of paper with John Q. Adams name on it. This was a discarded ballot. Rensselaer took this scrap of paper to be a sign from God. Rensselaer put the scrap of paper in the ballot box, broke the 17-17 tie and made Adams President of the United States.

An ardent Jackson supporter, George Kremer, screamed the term corrupt bargain, since Adams named Clay to be his Secretary of State. They had met on a Sunday, but little is known of what happened between them. Adams famous diary was totally silent.

This charge of corrupt bargain influenced the Tennessee legislature to designate Jackson as its presidential choice in 1828, and so the campaign of 1828 really began in 1825. Calhoun became the Vice-President as he affixed his name to both Jackson and Adams prior to the election of 1824.

The Founding Fathers had thought that the Electoral College would fail to elect a president 19 out of every 20 elections. They were in error. Only three times (1800, 1824, 1876) has the Electoral College failed to elect an American president.

Bob Leith is a retired history professor from Ohio University Southern and The University of Rio Grande.

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Its not an accident that corporate media are trying to pit former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis against each other. Among Republicans, the former president and current governor of Florida are popular for their policies and willingness to fight the media. That means theyre a threat to the establishment.

But as clever as the media figures running the operation apparently thought they were, neither of the top Republicans took the bait, understanding that it only serves their political opponents interest to have them squabbling.

Still, it was interesting to see it go down. When Trump made an off-hand remark about politicians who wouldnt say whether they got the booster being gutless, the media alleged, without substantiation, that he was going to war against DeSantis.

Then, in a fun and rowdy interview on the Ruthless Podcast, DeSantis was asked an extremely loaded question.

One thing I have to bring up in terms of national politics [C]urrently youre leading pretty much every poll for the Republican nomination for president. Im just very interested in hearing your thoughts on that, one of the hosts asked the governor.

Thats not just not true, its wildly untrue. For example, heres one poll from last month that showed Trump absolutely dominating a poll of Republican voters.

Unpopular with the beltway establishment, the former president remains very popular with Republican voters. Now, if Republicans are asked who they would pick if Trump chose not to run, it is true that DeSantis does well. But the original question was preposterous.

DeSantis responded by saying he is running for re-election as governor of Florida this year, and that he just does his job and tries to get things done proactively and not just reactively. The Ruthless podcasters pressed a bit more, alleging the media are trying to drive a wedge between you and one of your constituents here in Florida, former President Trump. Is there any sort of animosity? Whats that relationship like? Every article theyre trying to push these days is trying to cause trouble. I want to know what that dynamic is like.

DeSantis was firm. This is what the media does and you can not fall for the bait. You know what theyre trying to do. So dont take it. He added that Republicans needed to stay united for a big election later this year, and needed to stay focused on not just fighting but beating the left. We need everyone on board. Not just Republicans but independents, he said, noting that even Democrats are looking at Biden and saying this is not what they want. We have a chance to broaden our coalition.

Despite these very clear remarks, the media immediately tried to suggest he was warring with Trump. Later in the interview, he said that he wished hed fought lockdowns harder earlier on a sentiment he has expressed repeatedly at least since last April. This time, though, the media tried to spin the sentiment as a sneaky counter-attack on Trump.

That was enough direction for Allahpundit one of Hot Airs NeverTrump bloggers to write a rambling piece of fan fiction about the supposed feud between the two politicians, although he did cheekily wonder if they were coordinating this entire feud behind the scenes in order to give Trump a pretext to sound more reasonable about COVID. For this, uh, brilliant analysis, the New York Timess Maggie Haberman literally said, If youre not reading @allahpundit, youre missing some of the smartest stuff out there these days.

That allegedly brilliant pundit wrote, The angry Trump statement responding to this should be an all-timer.

Instead, the Trump team let it be known that they assumed the entire media operation to drive a wedge between the two men was planted by Mitch McConnell, who is extremely close to the Ruthless podcasters.

Sen. Lindsay Graham warned McConnell recently that he needs to make up with Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, if he wants to become majority leader again:

If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate, you have to have a working relationship with Donald Trump, Graham, of South Carolina, told Fox News on Wednesday night

Hes the most consequential Republican since Ronald Reagan, Graham said. It is his nomination if he wants it, and I think hell get re-elected in 2024.

I like Senator McConnell, he worked well with President Trump to get a bunch of judges including three supreme court justices on the bench, they got the tax cuts passed working together.

But heres the question: can Senator McConnell effectively work with the leader the Republican party, Donald Trump?

Im not gonna vote for anybody that cant have a working relationship with President Trump, to be a team to come up with an America First agenda, to show the difference between us and liberal Democrats, to prosecute the case for Trump policies because if you cant do that, you will fail. I will tell you that.

Its fair to say that as successful as Trump was in transforming some of the partys policies and approaches, the Republican establishment views his presidency as a mere interruption of their control of the party. They dont particularly like his focus on working-class concerns and away from interventionist foreign policy.

They didnt disappear, and they are lying in wait to resume the place at the table they believe theyre entitled to. To that end, the continued success of conservative populism is viewed as a threat. They know voters love Trump and DeSantis, so they are hoping to divide one or both men from the Republican electorate.

Whether it comes from the media or establishment figures, a Trump-DeSantis fight at this juncture serves the political enemies of conservative voters. They should heed DeSantiss encouragement to focus on the work needed to secure not just electoral wins in November. If Republican voters want more politicians like Trump and DeSantis, and they clearly do, they should make sure to nominate them in key primaries before the November election.

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If things dont seem quite right, if your future looks bleak or your financial situation feels vulnerable, dont worry. President Joe Biden is about to explain to you that because of him, youre actually doing fine, thriving even, and once youve heard from him, youll understand just how good your life is.

As we witness the coronavirus spreading at a rate exponentially higher than it ever did under Bidens predecessor and as shoppers take out a second mortgage to buy bread and milk, Biden hosted his first press conference of the year to let you know that what youre seeing and what youre reading isnt whats happening.

Noting just how miserable everything under Biden is, an Associated Press reporter asked the president if he had overpromise[d] on what he told voters he would do and how he would course-correct going forward.

Biden replied not that hes going to make any policy changes or reversals, but that he needs to do a better job of explaining how much better life is for you since he was elected.

Look, I didnt overpromise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen, he said. (Yes, he said that.) He went on to say, What I have to do, and the change in tactic, if you will: I have to make clear to the American people what we are for. Weve passed a lot. Weve passed a lot of things that people dont even understand whats all thats in it, understandably.

And so, Biden said, he will soon be out on the road a lot, making the case around the country, that things are solid.

Youre stuck wondering if youll ever be able to travel worry-free internationally again, or if your current budget plan is sustainable with record inflation? You just dont understand how great this is! Hold on, Biden is on the way to help you understand why youre wrong and should in fact be ecstatic with his performance.

Biden also said its the bottom line on COVID-19 that we are in a better place than weve been and have been thus far, clearly better than a year ago.

Thats interesting. Heres the latest from The New York Times COVID summary report: The Omicron variant has pushed the countrys daily case reports to record levels, with more than 800,000 new infections being reported each day; [a]bout 150,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized nationwide, more than at any previous point in the pandemic; and, [a]round 1,900 deaths are being announced each day, a 50 percent increase over the last two weeks.

Biden talked for two hours, a reflection of the apparent belief at the White House that their biggest problem is that they havent been speaking enough, that they should have been explaining all along what good shape youre in.

Ahead of the conference, CNN correspondent Phil Mattingly dutifully reported that one Democratic lawmaker saw the event as an opportunity to start to reclaim the narrative.

Earlier in the day, The Washington Post had a story chock-full of quotes from White House officials eager to help you understand things that you apparently arent yet grasping.

We have a lot of work left to do, but weve had a very productive year, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed told the paper. The White House has done a very good job of helping the president carry out the agenda he ran on. So I think that the strategy for the year ahead is the same formula we followed for the past year, which is keep working, keep getting things done, keep moving the ball downfield.

Deputy White House Chief of Staff Jen OMalley Dillon said, Its important to take stock of where weve come, because theres a really strong story to be told about whats happened in this administration over the last year.

Communications Director Kate Bedingfield assured voters that Biden is doing everything in his power to make their lives better, and, Were going continue to make progress.

See there. Dont you feel better?

Its still almost three years away, but even with all that reassurance that things are looking pretty good, Bidens chances for reelection arent as rosy. An Associated Press survey out Thursday showed less than 30 percent of the public wants him to run again in 2024. Not even a majority of Democrats said they want him to run. But thats probably because they havent yet seen him explain how nice life is at the moment.

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A large majority of Americans say they support restrictions on abortion, a new poll from the Knights of Columbus and Marist Pollsuggests.

In the survey of 1,004 adults, pollsters found that 71 percent of Americans think abortion should be heavily limited and only allowed in certain instances.

Of the Americans who favor more regulation on killing unborn babies in the womb, 22 percent think abortion should be illegal beyond the first trimester. Another 28 percent think abortion should be allowed only in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mothers life, while 9 percent say it should be allowed only when the mothers life is threatened.

81% of Americans believe laws can protect both the mother and her unborn child, the report states.

While only 12 percent of Americans believe abortion should be outlawed altogether, at least 49 percent of Democrats, 93 percent of Republicans, and 70 percent of independents say they favor more regulations protecting babies in the womb, not fewer.

The poll also found that the majority of Americans, 54 percent, do not agree with taxpayer-funded abortions in the United States despite the Biden administrations efforts to reinstate them. An even higher percentage, 73 percent, say the United States should not use tax dollars to fund abortions overseas. Of those who oppose or strongly oppose funding for abortions abroad, 59 percent self-identify as pro-choice.

Despite the fact that President Joe Bidens Food and Drug Administration just greenlit mail-order abortion drugs, 63 percent of Americans say they oppose the practice.

The overwhelming opposition to loosening abortion restrictions shows that despite Democrat and corporate medias efforts to convince the nation otherwise, most Americans do not want unfettered access to killing unborn babies. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, which evaluates whether Roe v. Wade still has a hold on the nation, by the end of the justices 2021-2022 term.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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Arizona Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly announced his support for eliminating the filibuster to allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to federalize elections on Wednesday.

[Kelly] will support a change to the filibuster rule, The Arizona Republic has learned, showing for the first time a willingness to bend on an issue that has tied the Senate in knots for a year as the Democratic legislative agenda has stalled, the state paper reported. Kelly, who is up for reelection this year, will back a talking filibuster rule only for the proposed voting rights legislation that he co-sponsors.

While branded as a voting rights bill by Democrats and the corporate press to shroud the legislation in the moral righteousness of civil rights, the proposed measure would impose sweeping regulations to take over election standards that open the door for mass voter fraud. The Freedom to Vote Act eliminates safeguards for election integrity by banning witness signature validation on absentee ballots and preventing election officials from independently verifying voter eligibility. The bill also requires states to offer same-day registration, enhancing the likelihood of fraud as officials lack sufficient time to ensure the accuracy of the information provided.

Kellys endorsement of the Senate rule change comes as congressional Democrats mount a crusade to pass major legislation to overhaul elections ahead of the November midterms. The Senate filibuster, which allows the minority party to block legislation short of 60 votes, stands in the way as an institutional roadblock to prevent a split 50-50 chamber from imposing radical reforms, with Democrats granted the majority by virtue of White House control.

The bill, co-sponsored by every Democrat in the Senate including Kelly, remains stalled as long as Senate rules remain unchanged. Two Democrat senators, however, including Kellys Arizona colleague Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have refused to back the filibusters destruction. On Tuesday, Manchin dug in on his opposition to the rule change, even welcoming a primary challenge over the issue.

The majority of my colleagues in the Democratic caucus have changed their minds. I respect that, Manchin told Politico. They have a right to change their minds. I havent. I hope they respect that too. Ive never changed my mind on the filibuster.

Ive been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me, Manchin added.

Kellys endorsement of the Democrats nuclear option to back President Joe Bidens agenda might spell trouble for the senator, who narrowly clinched the seat in the 2020 special election by less than 3 points and fewer than 100,000 votes.

In November, two months before Bidens nationwide approval rating reached the second-lowest of any White House occupant after one year in office, the presidents approval in Arizona was shown at only 42 percent, according to a survey conducted by OH Predictive Insights.

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.

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Mark Kelly Wants To Kill The Filibuster For Democrats' Election Takeover - The Federalist

Joe Biden has been in the Oval Office (or that weird set in the Eisenhower buildings South Court auditorium with the greenscreen windows) for a year now, and hes already managed to make his short presidency known for a long line-up of scandals, botches, and slip-ups.

Its too hard to narrow the list down to one top failure, although his disgracefully handled Afghanistan withdrawal may be the most sobering and inflation may be the one that played the biggest role in Bidens tanking approval ratings. Even though Bidens mess-ups tally up to far more than 12, its not hard to remember a Biden-enabled disaster for every month of the septuagenarians first year at the stern or in the basement.

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed a list of radically left-wing executive orders, including an order requiring that schools must ignore the biological differences between male and female students from the athletic field to the bathroom if they wish to continue receiving federal funding. In Bidens first week, Press Secretary Jen Psaki also signaled the administrations plans to reinstate federal funding for abortions around the world with the reversal of the Mexico City policy, and the new president canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.

As Tristan Justice reported at the time, Bidens first 48 hours in office have launched the new administration with 17 executive orders, more than were issued in the first month of their presidencies by Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton combined.

In February, Bidens Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced strict reopening guidelines that would keep many schools around the country shut down. Only K-12 schools in cities and areas with low or moderate virus transmission can fully reopen for in-person learning, as long as physical distancing and mask-wearing is enforced, Jordan Boyd reported on Feb. 12. Any transmission rate beyond what is designated as moderate requires hybrid learning or reduced attendance, limiting which children are allowed in the classroom at the same time.

On the same day, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted that far-left teachers unions that have worked to keep students out of school buildings over the course of the Covid pandemic had influence when the CDC created its school reopening guidelines.

As The Washington Post first reported, the Biden White House spent the month of March plotting with corporations to develop a vaccine passport system to force Americans to show their Covid papers in order to participate fully in society. The passports are expected to be free and available through applications for smartphones, which could display a scannable code similar to an airline boarding pass, the Post noted.

At the end of April, Biden announced his American Families Plan, a list of far-left spending priorities, many of which would become hallmarks of his struggling Build Back Bankrupt agenda. The goals of the proposed $1.8 trillion spending spree included extending government schooling fully into preschool and two years of taxpayer-provided community college.

Scandal follows President Bidens troubled son Hunter around, as the country learned when the New York Post published damning information recovered from a laptop the younger Biden allegedly left at a repair store in late 2020. But further revelations about Hunters exploits emerged in May of last year, adding to the pile of unsavory behavior that may implicate the president himself.

New emails from Hunter Bidens suspected laptop published on May 26 by the Post show that Joe Biden met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates of his sons at a dinner in Washington, DC, while he was vice president in April 2015.

Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together, wrote executive Vadym Pozharskyi of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where Hunter sat on the board.

Other emails published by The Daily Mail in May revealed that Hunter Biden bragged he smoked crack with [former D.C. Mayor] Marion Barry when he was a student at Georgetown University.

Bidens crisis at the Southern border has been setting records all year, but it was in June that apprehensions surged past 1 million for fiscal year 2021 and border crossings were at the highest levels since 2006. In May alone, 170,000 people were captured, marking a 20-year high, Gabe Kaminsky reported at the time. June also saw the border state of Texas declare an emergency over Bidens border crisis, which the president helped cause by reversing Trump-era stances like the Remain in Mexico policy.

As the crisis raged, Bidens border czar Vice President Kamala Harris couldnt be bothered to visit the actual U.S.-Mexico line, snapping I havent been to Europe when reporters pressed her on the topic. She finally caved and scheduled a trip, but only after former President Donald Trump announced his plans to visit.

In July, the Biden administration bragged about colluding with Big Tech to shut down perspectives with which the regime disagreed. In a press briefing on July 15, Psaki touted the administrations policy of flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. A few days later, Psaki admitted there was nothing off the table in the effort to smear dissent as misinformation and have it removed from social media.

August saw the largest-scale disaster on Bidens watch so far, when the administrations disorganized withdrawal from Afghanistan left 13 American service members dead and thousands of American citizens and allies stranded under Taliban control.

From the administrations decision to vacate Bagram Air Base before evacuating Americans from the country, to leaving weapons and equipment to fall into the hands of the Taliban, to Biden taking an out-of-touch, hollow victory lap after the service members deaths and while Americans remained stranded, to the administrations ongoing decision to ignore the allies still behind enemy lines, every action taken by the Biden team was a disaster. In the same month, the administration carried out a drone strike targeted at ISIS operatives that actually killed at least 10 civilians, seven of whom were children.

Americans wont soon forget the harrowing images of desperate people trampling each other in the chaotic race to the Kabul airport, of people clinging to aircraft landing gear and falling helpless from the sky, or of a lone helicopter leaving the roof of the American embassy. There is blood on Bidens hands, and our allies wont soon forget it either.

After a photo of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback was misconstrued by Democrats and their media allies to falsely accuse agents of whipping criminals, Biden promised to make his own CBP employees pay and the White House banned agents in Del Rio, Texas from using horses going forward.

It was horrible to see. To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? Its outrageous, Biden claimed, even though the photographer who took the viral photo insisted hed never seen them whip anyone.

On Sept. 29, the National School Boards Association sent a letter to the White House asking Biden to use the FBI and other federal law enforcement to target parents using terrorism laws. A few dayes later on Oct. 4, in response to the letter, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI and federal attorneys to investigate and address a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.

As it turns out, however, Bidens own Education Secretary Miguel Cardona appears to have secretly requested the letter from NSBA, presumably to use as a pretense for the administrations push to target parents unhappy with public schools closures, mask mandates, and extremist LGBT and critical race theory curricula.

After issuing a September press release threatening a vaccine mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees, Bidens Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an emergency temporary standard on Nov. 4 that would require businesses to comply by Jan. 4 or incur fines of up to $14,000 per violation.

The Supreme Court struck this down in January, of course, and the Biden administration knew it was flagrantly unconstitutional all along but exploiting the delays of the judicial system allowed the administration to bully many corporations into compliance anyway. Never mind the fact that the Biden administration had promised during the campaign that it wouldnt mandate the Covid vaccine.

December saw the climax (so far) of Bidens joint inflation and supply chain crisis, dually caused by the administrations radical spending and Democrats Covid lockdowns. As Americans faced shortages and shipping delays during their Christmas shopping, the Department of Labor released its November figures revealing 6.8 percent year-to-year inflation, or the largest 12-month increase since the period ending June 1982.

Decembers inflation numbers were even higher, clocking in at 7 percent.

In a Jan. 11 speech urging the U.S. Senate to ditch filibuster rules in order to pass his radical and unconstitutional federalization of election laws, President Biden compared his agendas critics whichincludeDemocrat Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to former Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Confederate leader Jefferson Davis.

Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis? Bidensaid. Comparing his critics to notorious segregationists isnt a good way to start year two of the Biden era.

Who knows what new scandals and embarrassments await the Biden administration in 2022? For the sake of the country, we can hope for fewer than in 2021, but its clear the administration has a failed track record only one year in.

Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor released a statement on Wednesday debunking a false narrative published by NPR claiming that the Trump appointee refused to wear a mask despite the leftist justices wishes.

Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends, the statement from the justices read.

One day prior, NPRs Nina Totenberg wrote a hit piece targeting Gorsuch and claiming that the conservative judge didnt mask despite Sotomayors COVID worries, leading her to telework.

This is not Totenbergs first time writing false stories to target conservative judges. As The Federalists Mollie Hemingway previously noted, Totenberg, easily NPRs most biased reporter, was the first person to amplify Anita Hills allegations of sexual harassment against then-SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas.

According to Totenbergs most recent report smearing Gorsuch, the rise of the omicron variant in the U.S. prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to ask the SCOTUS justices to mask up. While most of the justices complied, Gorsuch chose to proceed without a face covering.

Totenberg, who clearly holds a grudge against Gorsuch (she calls him a prickly justice), reported the justices choice as a slight to Sotomayor who has a myriad of underlying health issues including diabetes. She cited court sources to suggest that Sotomayor did not feel safe in close proximity to people who were unmasked.

His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone, Totenberg claimed.

While it is true that Sotomayor has refrained from listening to oral arguments in person and instead chose to join virtually from her chambers, the justices statement clearly suggests that her decision to remain remote did not stem from a spat with Gorsuch.

Despite the justices statement, Totenbergs colleagues continued to defend her false story and even went so far as to claim that Gorsuch and Sotomayors words were engineered.

I surprised at how many Supreme Court correspondents I admire are passing along a statement from two justices that is at best false without any context whatsoever, NPRs David Gura tweeted.

Update:

Shortly after The Federalist published this article, Chief Justice John Roberts released a statement denying that he ever requested justices wear face coverings while the Supreme Court was in session despite Totenbergs report stating otherwise.

I did not request Justice Gorsuch or any other Justice to wear a mask on the bench, the statement read.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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One year ago today, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, and to commemorate the momentous occasion, youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman delivered a spoken word poem.

Unsurprisingly, the corporate media and celebrities fawned all over the young artist, whose poem, The Hill We Climb, addressed racism, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and Bidens unity pledge.

But as we look back just a year later, its more obvious than ever that the unity schtick was a sham and that the hill weve been climbing is less like a grassy knoll and more like a disastrous rocky cliff. And weve less been climbing up it, and more falling off of it.

To that end, heres a new tribute using some of Gormans words and ideas to capture Bidens inaugural year and inject a little reality into the inaugural poem.

When morning breaks on year two, we ask ourselves, where can we find warmth in this never-ending dark winter?

The dementia patient we elected. A cross we must bear.

We now see what we have done.

Weve learned that science can be personified, and that becoming the first female four-star admiral can include a Y chromosome.

Federal power was theirs before we knew it.

Somehow they grew it.

Somehow they lied, we complied, to become a nation that isnt sick, but is still masked and vaxxed.

We, the residents of a country where a bused black girl can dream of becoming president, only to fail miserably campaigns are hard and land in the vice presidents office on Democrats race card.

And, yes, she is far from polished, far from pristine, but can power through with a cackle and progressive dream. Root causes are hard to find when its your turn to step up.

And though shes never been to the border, its fine, because shes also never been to Europe.

So the dream teams committed to all cultures but ours, colors but white, characters but Rs, and conditions of man (he/him).

And so we lift our gaze, not to what stands before us, but what stands between us.

We widen the divide because we know to put equity first, we must put equality aside.

We lay down our arms because ammunition is impossible to find.

We seek harm to none except parents.

Because theyre domestic terrorists.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say what we know:

That if it isnt left-wing, it must be Jim Crow.

That even as we worked, we got fired.

Supply shortage, staff shortage, and no one to hire.

That well forever be paying more for gas, inflation.

Although shelves are as empty as our pocketbooks, and even our soul belongs to the CCP, the refrain remains: Cmon, man! Unity!

Scripture tells us were all made in Gods likeness.

But thats not important, like combatting whiteness.

This is the uphill climb we never asked for.

Because learning from our past is never enough.

We must rage against history, tear it all down, snuff it out.

And commit to delusion no matter the stretch:

Jan. 6 insurrection, sedition, Border Patrol whips, and the climate apocalypse.

Weve seen a force that would shatter our nation, rather than share it.

Would destroy our country if they could call it democracy.

Big Tech, corrupt media, Democrats rigging in 2020, they succeeded.

But now in the midterms, they will be defeated.

In God (then on family and country) we trust, for while we have our eyes on 22 and 24, the FBI has its eyes on us.

This is the era of the ruling class, basking in the self-important swamp of alphabet soup: CNN, CDC, CRT and CYA.

They turn mountains to molehills and molehills to mountains, and to point out this fact is to be censored to no end.

But within this we find the power to take our lives back, in trusting the science, we take off our masks.

So rather than do like Jen Psaki, lets not circle back to the problems of yesteryear and instead recognize: If the president cant prevail over a complete sentence, how could he prevail over us?

We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a people governed by consent, not OSHA; following the example of Florida, not Fauci.

A country where men provide for the women of their house, not seek housing in womens prisons.

A country where women can run for office and on a girls-only track team.

We will not be turned around or interrupted by federal intimidation because, as some important person said, Its time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.

Let us restore our country from the 2021 disastrous trip around the sun.

But after just one year of four, weve barely begun.

And so we have learned, we must move where its sane.

Blue cities are psycho, so move to red plains.

We must rise from Washingtons District of Vaccine Passports.

We must rise from the poop-littered streets of San Francisco.

We must rise from the bullet-holed Chicago skyline.

Out of the White House correspondence dinner and into the salt mine.

But memory-holing is all the rage, so Biden and friends are turning the page.

Forget blunders and borders and lost education, Afghanistan, Hunter, COVID threats to the nation its all good.

The defund-police commander in chief can backtrack and build back and insist nothing to see here and for the effort, youve got to hand it to him.

But it wont work; we wont forget the past year.

Lets go, Brandon.

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