Report: U.S. Coast Guard Misses Its Recruiting Target for Fourth Year in a Row

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The U.S. Coast Guard has missed its recruiting targets for the fourth fiscal year in a row, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Titled, “Recruitment and Retention Challenges Persist,” the report revealed that the Coast Guard “is about 4,800 members short” of its target total force, as the branch marks the fourth year in a row it has come up short of its recruitment goals. This shortfall encompasses the branch’s active duty, reserve, and civilian workforces, according to the Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2024 congressional budget justification.

“The Coast Guard has also faced recruitment and retention issues within its cyberspace workforce, specialized forces, and marine inspectors,” the GAO report reads. “Competition with higher paying jobs in the private sector, limited opportunities for promotion, and long work hours have made it challenging to recruit and retain these personnel.”

Factors contributing to such retention issues include quality of health care and housing costs, according to the GAO. Coast Guard personnel stationed in remote locations, for example, could have trouble accessing quality medical care. Regarding housing costs, GAO found that the Department of Defense — which “determines [housing] allowances for all the services” to help service members with housing costs — has failed to rely “on quality data to set accurate allowance rates.” In other words, the agency has failed to adjust its housing allowances to match fluctuating housing costs. (Read more from “Report: U.S. Coast Guard Misses Its Recruiting Target for Fourth Year in a Row” HERE)

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Top Athlete Urges Congress to Pass Bill Defining ‘Woman’

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Riley Gaines, a former top college athlete, called on Congress on Wednesday to pass the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would clarify that the term “woman” is based on biology rather than personal identity when it appears in federal law.

The bill, led by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) and cosponsored by about two dozen other Republicans, would codify the meanings of several of these sex-based terms, including “sex,” “woman,” “man,” “girl,” “boy,” “mother,” and “father.”

“This is crucial to ensure that women, we’re entitled to our privacy and our safety and our fairness and our equal opportunity,” Gaines said, adding, “I’m speaking for so much more than just myself.”

Gaines, a decorated swimmer who now serves as an Independent Women’s Voice spokeswoman, gained national attention last year after tying down to the hundredth of a second with Lia Thomas, a man, in an NCAA women’s national swimming championship event. (Read more from “Top Athlete Urges Congress to Pass Bill Defining ‘Woman’” HERE)

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Nashville Christian School Files Motion to Block Release of Transgender Attacker’s Manifesto

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The Nashville Christian school that was attacked by a 28-year-old transgender individual on March 27, 2023, has filed a motion to block the release of the attacker’s manifesto.

The 28-year-old transgender individual killed three children and three adults in the attack.

On April 21, 2023, Breitbart News pointed to a New York Post report in which Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston indicated the FBI was stalling the manifesto’s release.

Soon after, the Tennessee Star newspaper filed a public records request to release the manifesto, but on April 25, 2023, Breitbart News observed the request was denied.

On May 14, 2023, the Daily Mail explained that the manifesto has since been given to “a judge in Nashville,” allowing him to decide on its release. (Read more from “Nashville Christian School Files Motion to Block Release of Transgender Attacker’s Manifesto” HERE)

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Elon Musk Claims There’s ‘No Proof’ Texas Shooter Was White Supremacist: ‘Psyop’

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By Rolling Stone. Elon Musk sat down with CNBC’s David Faber for an interview where he declared he doesn’t give a s**t if his tweets damage his companies. . .

Faber confronted Musk about the kinds of tweets that are sending advertisers fleeing from his platform, including his recent claims that evidence a mass shooter who killed 8 people outside an Allen, Texas mall ascribed to white supremacist beliefs was a “bad psyop.”

“I think it was incorrectly ascribed to be a white supremacist action,” Musk said, claiming that Bellingcat’s discovery of a social media profile outlining his beliefs was not credible. “Have you heard what Bellingcat does? Psyops.” Musk added.

“I’m saying that I thought ascribing it to white supremacy was bull***t,” he said. . .

“I would say there’s no proof that he is,” Musk countered. Documents from the FBI and other officials have unveiled the shooter posted neo-Nazi content. Police have confirmed that photos of the shooters swastika and “SS” tattoos circulating on social media were genuine, and said the investigation has established that he harbored “neo-Nazi ideation.” (Read more from “Elon Musk Claims There’s ‘No Proof’ Texas Shooter Was White Supremacist: ‘Psyop'” HERE)

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Elon Musk Pauses for 12 Awkward Seconds When Asked About His Conspiracy Theory Tweets

By Mediaite. David Faber’s interview with Elon Musk devolved into a long, awkward pause after the CNBC host asked about his controversial Twitter posts and how they might affect his businesses.

“Let’s talk a bit about your tweets. It comes up a lot,” said Faber in an interview on Tuesday night, before noting that Musk had published tweets that have been accused of promoting conspiracy theories.

“Well, yes, but I mean honestly, you know… some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true,” responded Musk, citing the Hunter Biden laptop story as an example.

Faber asked, “But, how do you make a choice in terms of when you’re going to engage? I mean, for example, even today, Elon, you tweeted this thing about George Soros.”

“You said he wants to erode the very fabric of civilization and Soros hates humanity,” Faber noted, prompting Musk to say, “Yeah, I think that’s true. That’s my opinion.” (Read more from “Elon Musk Pauses for 12 Awkward Seconds When Asked About His Conspiracy Theory Tweets” HERE)

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Impeaching Mayorkas Gains Momentum Among Key House Republicans

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Calls among House Republicans to begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have grown after a week of chaotic and record-breaking illegal migration activity at the southern border.

Several members of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee responsible for conducting impeachments, say they support moving forward with the process.

“He should be impeached as soon as humanly possible,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told reporters on Tuesday.

Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) told Breitbart News, “I support beginning impeachment hearings. I’ve said that to chairman [Jim] Jordan. My constituents think it’s long overdue, and I feel as though once we lay out the facts for the American people and for my colleagues in the House, it’ll be inevitable.”

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) said in a statement, “Mayorkas has done more to help the cartels and child traffickers than he has to help the American people. It is clear he is intentionally violating the law and he must be impeached.” (Read more from “Impeaching Mayorkas Gains Momentum Among Key House Republicans” HERE)

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Career Abortionist Admits Most Late-Term Abortions He Performs Involve Healthy Babies and Mothers; Unwittingly Exposes Savagery Sought by House Democrats

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A career abortionist recently provided the Atlantic with insights into both his butchery and his victims. While the horrific details provided by Warren Hern paint a bloody picture of what actually takes place behind closed doors in blue-state abortion clinics, they also serve to indict the House Democrats who now seek to see similarly ruthless and limitless abortion enshrined as a national right.

Warren Hern is the abortionist who literally wrote the book on the barbaric practice.

Hern, a founding member of the National Abortion Federation, is notorious for performing late-term abortions in Colorado on viable human beings at the bulletproof Boulder Abortion Clinic, which he founded in 1973. He has been the subject of numerous profiles and articles.

A 2010 Guardian piece cast him as a brave survivor of pro-life hostilities and criticism by the kind of people who reckoned him monstrous on account of his late-term execution of a child with dwarfism and many other such human beings. . .

In the same piece, Hern noted he hated the word “abortionist,” suggesting that it had become a “degrading and demeaning word that has the same negative connotations as the most despicable racial epithet.” (Read more from “Career Abortionist Admits Most Late-Term Abortions He Performs Involve Healthy Babies and Mothers; Unwittingly Exposes Savagery Sought by House Democrats” HERE)

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Kamala Harris Torched on Twitter After Seemingly Suggesting That Banning ‘Gender Ideology’ Classes Would Involve Banning the Teaching of Women’s History

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Vice President Kamala Harris noted during a speech on Tuesday that some people want to put the kibosh on courses that involve “gender ideology” but then questioned whether this would involve courses related to “women’s history” and “women’s equality.”

“Do they want to eliminate the study of pay equity,” she asked.

While conservatives do want to ban the teaching of radical leftist gender ideology in public schools, this ideology pertains to LGBTQ topics such as the transgender movement, not women’s history.

Left-wing gender ideology remains an area of cultural contention, as some parents do not want public schools to expose their children to LGBT topics.

People responded to the vice president’s comments by accusing her of being unintelligent. (Read more from “Kamala Harris Torched on Twitter After Seemingly Suggesting That Banning ‘Gender Ideology’ Classes Would Involve Banning the Teaching of Women’s History” HERE)

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The Key Detail That’s Found in Every Investigation About Trump or the 2016 Election

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The Durham Report is here, and many intelligence and law enforcement officials should prepare to be yanked before numerous House committees to answer for the Russian collusion hoax. It’s official: Trump was right. Half the country knew for years that this was a wild goose chase, super-charged by the Justice Department’s overt bias against Donald Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t sugarcoat it: the findings of Special Counsel John Durham are devastating to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it exonerates the former president. The actions the bureau and others performed constitute the ‘deep state’ operations against the former president that we all knew were true. The FBI slow-walked the Clinton email probe but executed a headlong charge in the one targeting Mr. Trump, which hoped to peg him as a Kremlin agent.

In the process, the credibility of the FBI, our preeminent law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency that prided itself as an objective, professional, and apolitical institution, has been wrecked. The history of abuse and overreach throughout this investigation is epic, with new details showing that the FBI had evidence that the Steele Dossier could be Russian disinformation, which it was, but withheld disclosing that to keep the spy warrants against those in Trump’s orbit operational. Bias being a motivation, which Durham highlighted, isn’t new. In fact, the basis for the core of the report was already previewed to us with the Horowitz report in 2018.

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Muslim Parents Join Conservatives in Confronting LGBTQ Books

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Muslim parents and Moms for Liberty have at least one thing in common: Both are alarmed about the infusion of LGBTQ books and other materials in school classrooms and libraries.

Muslim families are raising their political profiles as they join the parental rights debate, most recently in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the school district has approved a host of books on homosexuality and transgenderism for the pre-K 5 curriculum and removed an opt-out choice.

“One of the fathers who had reached out to us said his daughter is a third-grader, and she came home and told him, ‘Daddy, I’m not a she. I want to be a they,’” said Zainab Chaudry, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Maryland office. “He was like, ‘She’s in third grade. What does she know about gender?’”

The fight goes beyond Montgomery County. Last year, Muslim parents were among those who packed board of education meetings in Dearborn, Michigan, over sexually themed LGBTQ books in school libraries. Their objections upended stereotypes about what The New Yorker called “the right-wing mothers fueling the school-board wars.”

“It’s everywhere,” Ms. Chaudry said. “It’s in multiple counties in Maryland, and not just the school systems in Maryland. It’s across the country.” (Read more from “Muslim Parents Join Conservatives in Confronting LGBTQ Books” HERE)

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White House Cuts Short Biden’s Trip Abroad Amid Debt Ceiling Talks

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President Joe Biden will convene with world leaders at the Group of Seven meeting in Japan, but the White House has canned his trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea amid a debt ceiling standoff.

“President Biden will return to the United States on Sunday, following the completion of the G-7 summit, in order to be back for meetings with congressional leaders to ensure that Congress takes action by the deadline to avert default,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote in a statement Tuesday.

Instead, Biden invited Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a state visit at a mutually agreed upon time. The president will additionally meet with Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Quad members, on the sidelines of the G-7.

“What I can speak to is G-7 and going to Hiroshima,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters earlier Tuesday. “We’re reevaluating the rest of the trip right now.” (Read more from “White House Cuts Short Biden’s Trip Abroad Amid Debt Ceiling Talks” HERE)

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