Day: October 23, 2025

Tennessee AG Skrmetti Applauds U.S. District Court Ruling Striking Down Biden-Era HHS Rule on Gender Identity in Healthcare

Kaitlin Housler
Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti applauded a ruling handed down Wednesday by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi striking down a final rule implemented by the Biden administration’s U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) redefining the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition against discrimination based on “sex” to include “gender identity.”

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Robby Starbuck Calls Out Google CEO After Company Claims AI Only Defamed Conservative Influencer After ‘Creative’ Prompts

Tom Pappert
Sundar Pichai, Robby Starbuck

Tennessee-based political commentator and documentarian Robby Starbuck on Thursday questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai after his company responded to the lawsuit he filed Wednesday, alleging that Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) products have defamed him to millions of users since 2023, by dismissing many of Starbuck’s claims. 

Starbuck announced his lawsuit on Wednesday, revealing claims that Google’s AI products falsely told users he was convicted of rape, had a criminal record that included stalking, drug charges, and resisting arrest, while other bizarre claims allegedly made by the AI products included the fictitious assertion that Starbuck, “flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane and sexually assaulted a minor.” 

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DOJ Expects Ex-Prosecutor Who Reportedly Quit over Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case to Testify for Accused Human Smuggler

Tom Pappert
Ben Schrader, Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed in a Wednesday legal filing that it anticipates Kilmar Abrego Garcia to call Ben Schrader, who reportedly quit his job as a prosecutor over objections to the human smuggling case against the citizen of El Salvador, as a witness at an upcoming evidentiary hearing where Abrego Garcia will seek to find evidence proving the government is engaged in vindictive prosecution. 

Acting U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire announced that the DOJ anticipates Abrego Garcia to call Schrader as a witness in a filing opposing new requests for discovery by Abrego Garcia, who the prosecutor said has demanded additional information about Schrader’s departure after Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw granted the defendant’s request for discovery.

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Over 100 Pro-Life Groups Urge Republican Lawmakers Not to Cave to Democrat Demands on Abortion

Just the News
Congress

A coalition of over 100 pro-life groups sent a letter Wednesday to Republican members of Congress, praising them for not agreeing to Democrat demands to include an extension of healthcare subsidies as a condition for reopening the government.

The groups argue that Obamacare subsidies, which have been front and center for Democrats in the government funding fight, have circumvented the 1976 Hyde Amendment that banned federal funding from being used on elective abortions.

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Commentary: Protect Privacy and Keep America First in Tech

Admin
google search

The remedies order in the Google search case landed with two clear takeaways. The court declined to split off Chrome and Android, avoiding a result that would have driven up costs and slowed security updates. At the same time, the ruling would add limits on how Google operates and compels sharing portions of search data with rivals. While the rejection of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) desired breakup of those units avoids harm to products that serve the welfare of consumers, data sharing mandates are still cause for concern. 

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Commentary: The FBI’s Strange Refusal to Fix Key Crime Stat

RealClearWire
FBI

Three years ago, RealClearInvestigations reported that the FBI was undercounting the number of armed civilians who had thwarted active shooters by a factor of three.

Even though the FBI acknowledged the issue at the time, it never corrected the error involving the politically fraught issue. In the years since, the problem has only gotten worse. Since RCI’s 2022 article, the FBI has acknowledged just three additional incidents of armed good Samaritans stopping active shooters from 2022 to 2024, and none in the last two years. In contrast, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), which I head, has documented 78 such cases over that same period – a 26-fold difference.

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