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State legislatures are often overlooked in the heat of campaign season, yet the laws crafted there have as much impact, if not more, on the average person’s everyday life as the ones passed by Congress. But for many Americans, ignoring elections for state legislatures is no longer an option. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer has them focused on state capitols, where abortion laws are now being decided. State legislatures also have a significant role in certifying the results of an election in most states. Certifying election results has been largely devoid of drama in...

A disturbing report from The Federalist details efforts by transgender activists to school the courts in how to deal with parents who refuse to transgender their young children.  In some cases, the courts have seized children whose parents refuse to recognize their child's "true" gender. Margot Cleveland of The Federalist talked to Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, who described "two waves" of this trend. "I first began hearing from distraught parents in this situation in 2016 and in 2017, I heard from seven families in as many different states in this situation.  In all but one case the...

Yesterday, H.R. 822, the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011," introduced by Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL), passed a House Judiciary Committee vote, and thus now goes to the House floor. The bill's prospects there look bright, given the fact that even if 27 of its 245 co-sponsors failed to vote for it, that would still leave it with bipartisan majority support. This, as one might imagine, has put the anti-self-defense lobby in a state of hysterical outrage. The Brady Campaign, for example, has renamed it the "Packing Heat on Your Street Act" (named, perhaps, by the same not very gifted...

Delegates Say They Want to Send a Strong Message to White House RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's General Assembly is the first in the nation to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement the national health care overhaul in states like Virginia...

<p>SACRAMENTO -- A Senate committee Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Gov. Gray Davis' closest energy adviser, S. David Freeman, to lead the state power authority, but not without intense scrutiny of the nominee by an Orange County senator.</p> <p>Sen. Ross Johnson, R-Irvine, laid into Freeman on a number of issues, including Freeman's late reporting of his financial interests in energy companies and the high price of the energy contracts he negotiated last spring.</p>