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Just days after the free Chinese of Taiwan voted against mainland Communist Chinese domination in Saturday's presidential election, we learn that the women of Xi Jinping's People's Republic continue to express a similar sentiment with the only tool left at their disposal. Their uteri. According to official figures released on Wednesday, Chinese women had fewer than half the births in 2023 than they did in 2016 — the year Beijing finally repealed that slow-rolling disaster known as the One-Child Policy. "Have more babies," Xi effectively told his people. "In this country? Are you kidding me?" replied the women of China....

The House race for California's 39th district has been called for Democrat Gil Cisneros over Young Kim, who was vying to become the first Korean-American woman in Congress and Republicans' last hope to keep a seat in Orange County. It is the 39th House seat that Democrats flipped this year. The big picture: Democrats dominated congressional races in the state this year, flipping six seats in southern California — four of them in traditionally red Orange County. The seat had been held by Republican Ed Royce for 13 terms.