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This week, the Census Bureau released the results of its formal test of the once-proposed, and now prevented, census citizenship question. The results are a striking rebuke to a recent leftist orthodoxy: Adding a citizenship question to a test-run of the census had no statistically significant effect on overall response rates. Even in the communities most sensitive to the question, such as neighborhoods with many Hispanics, response rates dropped only slightly.

To understand why this report is significant, step back to March 2018, when Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 census would include a question about citizenship status. Leftists were immediately outraged, seeing the addition as a racist conspiracy.

They made three main arguments: The question addition was motivated by racial animus; adding a citizenship question would dramatically reduce Hispanic response rates to the census, resulting in a large under-count; and anything resulting in a foreknown under-count would be an unconstitutional denial of fair representation to citizens of affected states. So their theory ran that the Trump administration added the question knowing or suspecting it would cause a Hispanic under-count, which would result in blue state populations being underestimated, and thus their congressional apportionment reduced after the 2020 census.

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A decorated former Green Beret has dedicated himself and a team of �heroes� to seeing that service members successfully reintegrate into American society after returning from Syria and Afghanistan.

Having been deployed three times to Iraq, Jason Van Camp has become acquainted to life in a war zone. While involved in numerous firefights against the enemy, he witnessed one team member killed in combat and several others wounded.

�My Special Forces team and I have gone through quite a bit,� the former U.S. Army soldier confesses to OneNewsNow.

Van Camp says he has always been intrigued about how differently soldiers process their return and reintegration back into society after serving in a war zone.

�We�ve all seen the same stuff, but some guys have a really hard time with it and some guys don�t,� he observes, then asks: �[But] why does one guy struggle, and another have no issues?�

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Leonardo DiCaprio has praised a move by the 2020 Golden Globes organisers to serve a 100% plant-based meal to guests at Sunday’s ceremony.

The Titanic actor, who has long campaigned on environmental issues despite receiving criticism for private jet usage, praised the move on Twitter on Thursday.

Responding to a tweet from the Hollywood Reporter which confirmed the plan, Leonardo, 45, thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), who organise the event, where he is nominated for the Best Actor gong.

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STONY POINT, New York � On December 30, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested Jorge Flores-Villalba, 27, as he exited a residence in Haverstraw, NY. Following his release from local custody where he was charged with a felony for leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in the death of a 35-year old woman on Christmas Eve.

Flores-Villalba, a Mexican national, was arrested by Stony Point Town Police Dec. 25, for fleeing from the fatal hit-and-run. He was released that same day without bail. ICE was alerted to Flores-Villalba�s arrest after his fingerprints revealed he was previously apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol in 2008 when he attempted to enter the country illegally, and was subsequently returned to Mexico. Flores-Villalba re-entered the country illegally at an unknown date and time following that encounter.

�ICE understands people in this community are alarmed about the release of this individual after being arrested for a crime of this heart-breaking nature,� said ICE New York Field Office Director Thomas Decker. �This is exactly why ICE and local law enforcement agencies should cooperate to the utmost extent possible and not be limited on how we work together. Creating laws and policies that prevent cooperation between law enforcement agencies just to promote their political agenda, places the safety of the public in danger. Due to the hard work of our officers, we were able to find and arrest this accused criminal, but there are countless others who are released without ICE even knowing, or whom it may take a great amount of resources to find for arrest.�

Flores-Villalba is expected to remain in ICE custody pending his removal proceedings; ICE will continue to work with the local law enforcement agencies regarding his upcoming court date for his criminal proceedings.

A school system in Virginia is conducting an experiment that could possibly benefit the pro-life movement.

Fairfax County Public Schools, one of the largest districts in the country, has adopted a plan to allow students in grades 7 through 12 to take one day away from school per year for “civic engagement activities,” such as marches or protests. The policy is due to take effect January 27, according to reports by news outlets.

Some experts told The Washington Post that allowing students to effectively skip school to attend protests tends to favor liberal causes. But one conservative movement that might benefit is the pro-life movement.

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“In a troubled world, few societies can devote themselves to such
intangible ideals, much less act upon them. But here in Singapore,
thanks to the heroic efforts of several generations, we can all
realistically aspire to live by these values, and turn our vision into
reality.” Lee Hsien Loong

I am pondering over this statement by Hsien Loong in his latest new year message. He acknowledged

The ghosts of presidential contests past are threatening to haunt the field of 2020 Democratic candidates just as the primary season gets underway.

Vying for attention will be former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, both of whom are embarking on national book tours.

Mrs. Clinton�s comments on her publicity tour for �The Book of Gutsy Women,� co-authored with daughter Chelsea, already have helped set the agenda for the early stages of the Democrats� 2020 campaign. A memoir from Mr. Obama is expected to arrive this year with a similar effect of bigfooting the Democratic candidates� message.

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In the lead-up to his return as host of the Golden Globe Awards, comedian Ricky Gervais ripped woke culture�s ruination of comedy by refusing to back down from making jokes it has deemed taboo.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Gervais addressed the intense Twitter backlash he has faced in recent days for making jokes at the expense of transgender activists. Most recently, he jokingly responded to a satirical article from Jarvis Dupont, sarcastically blasting biological women upset over transgenders using their bathrooms and taking over their sports.

�Those awful biological women can never understand what it must be like for you, becoming a lovely lady so late in life,� Gervais said on Twitter. �They take their girly privileges for granted. Winning at female sports and having their own toilets. Well, enough is enough.�

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In April 2018 the Department of Justice Inspector General issued a scathing report about fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s rampant lack of candor. McCabe lied to FBI agents under oath, multiple times. A reminder of the findings:

We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of Candor � No Oath).

We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI agents from INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor � Under Oath).

We further found that on July 28, 2017, when questioned under oath by the OIG in a recorded interview, McCabe lacked candor when he stated: (a) that he was not aware of Special Counsel having been authorized to speak to reporters around October 30 and (b) that, because he was not in Washington, D.C., on October 27 and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where Special Counsel was or what she was doing at that time. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor � Under Oath).

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