AG Dave Yost Pushes Congress to Allow Yearlong E15 Gas Sales, Says Bill Good for ‘Ohio’s Motorists, Farmers, and Energy Providers’

Dave Yost

Attorney General David Yost on Monday joined a push for the U.S. Congress to allow for yearlong sales of E15 gasoline, a fuel blend for modern vehicles from which 15 percent is derived through renewable agricultural sources and 85 percent through normal gasoline, arguing bipartisan legislation submitted recently to accomplish this goal would benefit Ohio farmers and the rest of the country.

“Ohio’s motorists, farmers and energy providers all stand to gain from this proposal,” Yost said in a statement published by his office.  “It’s good for our state’s economy, and it’s a key step toward energy independence for our country.”

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Republican Party Scores Legal Victory Over Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ ‘Blatantly Political’ Election Procedures Manual

Arizona Sec State Adrian Fontes

An Arizona Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously 3-0 last week that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes illegally made revisions to the state’s Election Procedures Manual (EPM) due to violating rulemaking procedures.

The Republican Party — the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP), the Republican National Committee, and the Yavapai County Republican Party — sued Fontes over the illegal changes. Even though progressive election attorney Marc Elias and top Democratic law firm Perkins Coie represented the defendants, the court found that the 2023 version of the EPM was invalid since Fontes only provided half the time for public comment that Arizona’s Administrative Procedures Act (APA) requires.

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Commentary: Trump’s Democratic ‘Allies’

Schumer and Biden

Former Clinton strategist James Carville has reinvented himself at age 80 as a sage Democrat podcaster. His predictions—remember, a victorious Kamala Harris?—are usually wrong. He enjoys engaging in public duels with celebrities to gain online clicks and media appearances.

Yet sometimes he appears judicious in his effort to return his party to the Clinton glory days of 1992-2000, before the takeover of the party by the lunatic left. That said, he too has become part of the new left nihilism he supposedly despises.

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Medical Schools Press Ahead Answering ‘Clarion Call’ to Wokeness

Medical students

Medical school mission statements are becoming increasingly laden with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and social justice language, a report released Monday found.

Do No Harm, a medical advocacy organization working to keep DEI and other political topics out of medicine, reviewed 158 medical school mission statements and found that 77% could be classified as “woke” in 2024, a number that increased substantially from 68% in 2021, according to a report first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report also found that “Higher ranked medical schools were more likely to increase the wokeness of their mission.”

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