It was just one short year ago that <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/pages/jeremys-1st-anniversary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s Razors</a> was launched as an alternative in an industry that seemed more interested in providing woke lectures than close shaves.
Since entering the field after declaring war on Harry&#8217;s Razors, The Daily Wire&#8217;s shaving startup has sold over 130,000 razors, expanded into a complete line of skin care and grooming products and now operates a bustling fulfillment center. The explosive success is proof that men want to look good without being scolded or preached at.
&#8220;Harry’s and their ilk don’t want you in their world—but I want you in mine. So stop giving your money to corporations that hate you. Give it to me instead,” Jeremy Boreing, the Daily Wire co-founder affectionately known as the &#8220;god-king,&#8221; said when he announced his new venture.
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Boreing took action after Harry’s publicly declared it would pull ads from The Daily Wire in response to a Daily Wire host articulating traditional views on gender back in 2018. In a viral moment that was part prank, part principle, Boreing starred in the first Jeremy’s Razors ad, which featured the McLaren-driving executive striding through The Daily Wire’s headquarters and taking a flame-thrower to a Harry&#8217;s display. The ad has now been seen over 22 million times on YouTube.
The success of Jeremy&#8217;s Razors is based on the same formula that inspired Boreing to launch a chocolate bar line earlier this month and an array of children&#8217;s video content that will be available on Daily Wire+ soon. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-traditional-bundle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy&#8217;s Chocolate</a> was inspired by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-hersheys-trends-on-twitter-as-brand-features-man-who-identifies-as-trans-in-international-womens-day-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke stunt by Hershey’s</a> and sold over half a million candy bars within days. Companies that insist on imposing their woke politics on consumers have not only turned off customers, but they&#8217;ve created an opening for alternative products, Boreing said.
&#8220;The Left is happy to bifurcate the culture, ripping it in two,&#8221; Boreing said. &#8220;They’re convinced there will be no economic consequences for this because you need their products.”
“So, to win, we have to rip the economy in two,” he continued. “We have to give conservatives their own companies and their own products to buy. We have to build market alternatives that, in success, will force the Left to take real losses if they don’t compete directly for our business.”
Boreing hinted that he does not intend to stop at razors, kids&#8217; content and chocolate.
&#8220;As long as corporations and institutions across America continue to alienate half the country, The Daily Wire will continue building alternatives,&#8221; he said.
To celebrate Jeremy&#8217;s Razors&#8217; one-year anniversary, <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/pages/jeremys-1st-anniversary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boreing announced</a> that Jeremy’s Razors Precision 5 razors would be 30% off for a limited time.

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Senate Republicans are pushing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/west-virginia-governor-jim-justice-says-it-will-take-a-catastrophe-for-unvaccinated-americans-to-get-vaccinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia Governor Jim Justice</a> to challenge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-infuriating-manchin-blasts-biden-for-vetoing-rebuke-of-esg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Manchin</a> for his Senate seat in 2024, setting up what would be a bruising brawl between two popular politicians, <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/justice-manchin-senate-republicans-closing-083000891.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico reported</a>.
Justice, himself a former Democrat who flipped during the Trump administration, has been meeting with top GOP leaders, sources told the outlet. Both men are extremely popular in the Mountaineer State, but given its deeply red constituency, Justice would be a formidable opponent for Manchin, who served as governor before moving to the Senate in 2010.
Republicans have long wooed Manchin to make the same party switch Justice made, but to no avail. Manchin is a conservative Democrat who has often been at odds with his increasingly liberal party.
Sources told Politico Justice could announce his entry into the race as early as next month. The multi-millionaire has reportedly put his coal mining company on the block and met with National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Steve Daines, (R-MT). He has also been in regular contact with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY), the outlet reported.
“The governor has a good political sense. So I am assuming that he&#8217;s going to get in,” Sen. Shellet Moore Capito, the state’s other U.S. senate representative, said. “It would change things. He has a huge approval rating, he just passed the biggest tax cut in state history. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about.”
Manchin, 75, has not said if he plans to seek re-election but said he isn’t worried about whom he might face in a general election.
“God bless them, it’ll be entertaining to watch their primary. That’s the greatest thing,” Manchin said.
Winning Manchin’s seat would play a big role in helping the GOP retake the majority in the Senate, where they trail the Democrats 51-49. If Justice jumps in, he would face at least one primary opponent in Rep. Alex Mooney, a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Justice campaigned against Mooney in his successful campaign last year against incumbent David McKinley.
A challenge by Justice could put some GOP senators in an awkward position. Manchin, who has voted with Republicans on some key issues over the years, has endorsed moderate Republicans including Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“He’s a close friend. Should he choose to run again, I would anticipate endorsing him,” said Sen. Susan Collins, of Maine.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-responds-to-rumored-trump-indictment-by-soros-funded-prosecutor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</a> would be powerless to stop constituent and possible 2024 White House rival Donald Trump from being arrested on a New York City warrant if a grand jury indicts the former president, <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/ben-shapiro?utm_campaign=host-collections&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=dw&amp;utm_content=ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said Tuesday.
DeSantis on Monday strongly condemned the case against Trump that was brought by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manhattan-da-fires-back-after-house-republicans-open-probe-into-trump-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg</a>, but in doing so still managed to tick off Trump and MAGA loyalists who believe DeSantis can somehow intervene. Voicing his opinion on the case and Bragg is about all DeSantis can do, Shapiro, a Harvard-trained lawyer and Daily Wire co-founder, told his podcast audience.
“The notion that DeSantis has the unilateral ability to stand in the doorway of Mar-a-Lago and prevent the extradition of Trump if [an extradition request] were to happen is just silly,” Shapiro said.
At best, a state governor such as DeSantis can review an extradition request only if there is a basis for believing it is improperly lodged. But that would rely on some technical flaw in the document, not the actual merits of the underlying case, Shapiro said. And anyway, Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, has already indicated Trump will surrender to New York authorities if he is to be formally charged, Shapiro noted.
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“You do, in fact, have to extradite people who&#8217;ve committed crimes in other states,” Shapiro said. “Article IV, Section two, of the Constitution explicitly requires this. The only conditions under which you do not have to extradite is if the extradition request documents are not in order that person&#8217;s right name on them or something.”
Shapiro and other legal experts have criticized as flimsy and politically motivated the case Bragg has put before a grand jury. Prosecutors claim Trump in 2016 hid hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels to hide a decade-old Lake Tahoe tryst. Such an agreement would be legal in most cases, but prosecutors say Trump improperly recorded the payments as a business expense. That would likely be a mere misdemeanor, but prosecutors are believed to be arguing that the payments were an unreported campaign expense and that the two actions add up to a felony.
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The prosecution of Trump on the Stormy Daniels hush money is absurd by pretty much every available legal theory. That’s why Trump should focus his fire on the Manhattan DA, not Ron DeSantis. <a href="https://t.co/Z7LyOFzPo5">pic.twitter.com/Z7LyOFzPo5</a>
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On Monday, DeSantis accused Bragg of “weaponizing” his office by pursuing an old and insignificant crime in order to nail the former president.
“We are not involved in this, won’t be involved in this. I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by some Soros DA, okay. He’s trying to do a political spectacle. He’s trying to virtue signal for his base.&#8221;
DeSantis, who has been increasingly under fire from Trump as he weighs entering the 2024 presidential race, also took an apparent swipe at Trump, remarking, “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, I can’t speak to that.”
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-attacks-desantis-after-gov-slammed-soros-funded-d-a-cited-hush-money-minors-or-a-man-might-accuse-desantis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired back on his Truth Social platform</a> with a cryptic statement that indicated he did not consider DeSantis’ criticism of Bragg helpful.
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&#8220;Ron DeSanctimonious will probably find out about FALSE ACCUSATIONS &amp; FAKE STORIES sometime in the future, as he gets older, wiser, and better known, when he&#8217;s unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are &#8216;underage&#8217; (or possibly a man!),” Trump wrote. “I&#8217;m sure he will want to fight these misfits just like I do!&#8221;
The ire of Trump and many of his supporters was misdirected at DeSantis, according to Shapiro.
“Why are you attacking the governor of Florida when it&#8217;s the D.A. in Manhattan who is coming after you?” Shapiro wondered. “You&#8217;re aiming your fire in the wrong place and it&#8217;s this kind of stuff that honestly doesn&#8217;t do Trump any justice in terms of his own candidacy.”

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The following is a transcript excerpt of Ben Shapiro’s recent conversation with Russell Brand in the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-with-russell-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Search,</a>” now available on DailyWire+.
Russell Brand: The C. S. Lewis aphorism or quote that you used reminded me of Sartre’s idea of “bad faith argument” that you’re not entering the conversation in a spirit of good faith, of open heartedness — that already, an agenda is being pursued. And I enjoy C. S. Lewis’s writing, in particular, because he was an intellectual and because he was an atheist and because he became a man of faith. And it was imaginative and redemptive and beautiful and sort of playful the way that he dealt with Christ and God and, you know, comedy actually in “The Screwtape Letters”. I saw some of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-screwtape-letters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">those videos</a>, and I enjoyed those that you made.
Ben Shapiro: Well, thank you.
Brand: Say, when it comes to something that’s super personal but also intersects with the culture, Ben — like I reckon that you and I would raise our kids different. You know?
Shapiro: I imagine. 
Laughter. 
Your kids aren’t going to Jewish day school, so yeah.
Brand: They’re not going there, and I don’t imagine that your children smoke cigars yet, for example. Mine are quite heavy smokers.
Shapiro: My son, I don’t know. He’s turning 7 soon.
Laughter. 
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Brand: With like, say &#8230; perhaps one of the most contentious issues — and of course I have to tread so carefully around this subject — when I think of like, I saw something on John Oliver the other day about DeSantis’s pose, obviously I’m aware it’s coming from John Oliver, he’s a comedian I know and deeply admire as a comic. The endpoint of his bit — it was, I guess one of the 20-minute monologue that John does — was about one of the books that’s been extracted from the libraries as a result of the new legislation was like a book about two male penguins raising a chick. And I felt like that’s probably precisely the type of book that would gently introduce the idea that same-sex relationships are acceptable and ordinary and not worthy of generating conflict, a gentle favor, that’s, for me, that’s like a perfectly inoffensive thing.
In my relationship with my daughters, I talk to [them about], you know, I have friends that are in same-sex relationships, and I point out to them there are different ways of being a human being: There’s this way of being a human being, there’s that way of being a human being. I try my best. I try to demonstrate my lack of certainty. Not belonging to a religious faith that gives me a clear, like that I’ve, you know, yielded to and sort of somewhat, like a lot of people probably in our time are building a spirituality as I go, in a W.B. Yeats each house must build their own religion type way, in desperation, in need, but not having sort of the heritage or the privilege or convenience — or however you want to regard having a faith that you can glue your soul to in the word of Lenard Cohen. You know, I approach it from a spiritual, humanistic, loving, revering way; that’s how I approach that subject. And I also have friends that have children who are identifying not as, you know, their born boys, identifying girls. And for me, I feel so sort of sympathetic, nonjudgmental, open about it. I see that as somehow distinct from, again, how these things play out in the culture on Twitter, where there seems to be a great deal of ferocity and judgment on both sides of that argument. I guess that is a question what I’m asking you, Ben. Is your ultimate position that if you’re allowed to raise your children how you want to, other people should be allowed to raise their children how they want to?
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Shapiro: So, I would say, within limits. We all, for example, disagree with child abuse. Nobody wants their kids to be beaten, presumably. How you define what you think is a healthy way to raise a child is obviously pretty important because kids can’t consent to being in that relationship with their parents. When it comes to, you know, some of these very dicey issues about fundamental truths, as we consider them — for example, males being male, female being female. The question is to what sort of treatment should be available to a child based on parental diagnosis or based on going to one particular type of therapist versus another type of therapist. These are matters of public concern because, again, you are dealing with children and things get very, very dicey around children, specifically because they can’t consent and make up their own minds on these sorts of things. I would say, autonomy, but within limits. So, the question is always, that’s where the sort of controversy always, lies: what exactly are the limits?
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Brand: Where’s the point of intervention? Where are you happy for the state or some other set of values to be asserted? Because for me, it’s almost &#8230; at no point do I want to be told. I raise my children how I’m going to raise my children, and I recognize that there will probably be things that people won’t agree with. And I feel quite almost angry, like, I’m raising them. I don’t trust you. I don’t trust your authority.
Shapiro: So, I think as a general rule — as a general overarching rule of the universe — sure, because I think parents are the ones who are closest to their kids. I think that the rubber meets the road when it comes to what we perceive as child health or child wellness, raising kids in what we would perceive as a healthy way or a way that is conducive to their future happiness. It gets very dicey obviously very quickly, and so I think the easiest position to take is the libertarian one, but I’m not a libertarian because, again, I think there’s a lot of situations where active harm can be done to children by a parent, and you do see that. For example, there are religious communities where they refuse to teach their kids math, science, or the “lingua franca,” the common parlance. I think that that’s wrong. I think that parents should have to teach their kids in a society the basic skills necessary for them to get by in life. Right? That’s a thing. Do I think that you should be able to raise your kid in the wilderness and never teach them ever to read, never teach them math, never teach them anything? I don’t think so. I think that that’s actually damaging to the child. So, there are limits, and I think that I would draw those limits probably more closely than you would. And that gets into some deeper issues about governance in general. And I think that all questions of governance have to start with: What do you think is the fundamental point of human existence? That’s where you always start. You have to go very broad to get there. What is the fundamental point of human existence? If the fundamental point of human existence is to — quote unquote — be left alone or to find yourself or to find your individual identity — so I totally disagree with that perspective because if I let my children become who they, they are who they are right now. And they’re very bad little people — because children are, in fact, terrible little people. One of the great lies of humanity is that babies are good or that children are good. Children are not good. Have you ever met a child? Children are miserable and they hit each other and they’re nasty. You have to civilize them. You have to teach them things. We all teach them things. If we let them eat what they wanted to eat, all they would eat is sugar. If we let them do what they wanted to do all day, all they would do is sit and watch TV. You actually have to civilize children.
Brand: I agree that civilizing, socializing, and conditioning are blurred in their boundaries. But with the examples you cited, it’s possible to never introduce them to sugar and never to introduce them to screens — by the way, I’ve failed terribly as a parent on both those fronts.
Shapiro: I agree with this, but what I’m saying is, on a moral level, I think that one of the things I do as a parent and as a person who believes that there are better and worse ways of living your life with regard to pretty much every human topic under the sun, including your sex life. I think that there are better and worse ways to do that. That means that I’m protecting my kids from certain material because I think that kids are incredibly malleable, and I think that environmental influences actually do matter to my kids. I’ve yet to find an area of human life in which environmental impact does not matter to my kids. And so this sort of idea that your kid is going to be who they’re going to be no matter what and they’re going to flourish into whatever they’re going to flourish into and your job is to stand back and let them go, I think that that’s irresponsible and virtually every parent would say the same. They would just draw the lines differently than I would. When it gets to the very hot button issues, that’s where it breaks out into the open, obviously. DeSantis’s point, to take Florida for example, is that they shouldn’t be in public school libraries not because parents should not be allowed to teach their kids but because teachers should not be allowed to teach my kids, which is a different thing. He’s saying out of the school libraries. They can still buy that book on Amazon. The notion that I can’t buy any book I want to on Amazon and it won’t be delivered in the state of Florida is a lie. I can buy whatever I want, and it’s my responsibility to teach my kid. It’s not the job of a teachers union employee to teach my kid what I think are fundamental human values.
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To continue the conversation, check out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-with-russell-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;The Search,</a>” now available on DailyWire+.
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The following is an interview with journalist and author James Rosen about his new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scalia-Rise-Greatness-1936-1986/dp/1684512271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986</a>” (Regnery Publishing, March 2023). 
<h3>DW: James, you’ve written several biographies about other Washington power brokers (John Mitchell, Dick Cheney). What attracted you to Justice Scalia?</h3>
Rosen: My work on “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scalia-Rise-Greatness-1936-1986/dp/1684512271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986</a>” can, in a sense, be traced back to my high school years, in the 1980s, when I first saw Justice Scalia on PBS’s <a href="https://www.learner.org/series/the-constitution-that-delicate-balance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Constitution: That Delicate Balance.”</a> It was a periodic show where a moderator, usually Fred Friendly, a former president of CBS News, explored hypothetical crises with a panel of eminent guests (e.g., Scalia, Sandra Day O’Connor, Gerald Ford) in a theater-in-the-round setting before a live audience.
Scalia struck me, immediately and unmistakably, as different from the other panelists: trenchant and humorous, clever and compelling. By the time I became a Washington correspondent, in 1999, I had read his Princeton lectures, collected in “A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law” (1997).
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The ideas Scalia was championing were considered, at the time, revolutionary — or, more precisely: counter-revolutionary, a response to the Warren Court — but they made perfect sense to me, a non-lawyer. He argued that when judges or justices interpret the meaning of the Constitution or a statute, they should be guided by the original meaning of the law, what it was widely understood to mean at the time of its enactment, not through the prism of latter-day social or policy preferences.
To understand the law’s original meaning, Scalia argued further, the best evidence was not some floor debate, committee report, or other sound-and-fury ephemera of the legislative process; rather, the original meaning was to be derived, chiefly and decisively, from the text of the measure that was enacted by the Congress and signed into law by the president, an approach to Constitutional and statutory interpretation Scalia called “textualism.”
Again, to my layman’s eye, the notion that judges should rely chiefly on the text of a law when deciding its meaning seemed so … elemental … so obviously the correct approach, that any other amounted to mad flight from basic reading comprehension.
Upon arriving in the Capitol, I wrote to the justice, seeking an interview. Our correspondence over the next two years, humorous and revealing, and the pair of one-on-one lunches we shared at his beloved AV Ristorante — vinous, unforgettable, and off the record — convinced me I would write about him someday. While the discussions we had at those lunches will remain off the record, excerpts from our correspondence will appear in the second and final volume, “Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986–2016.”
<h3>DW: Rumor has it the young Antonin Scalia was a sharp student. Any validity to the rumor?</h3>
Rosen: This is no rumor — it’s documented fact!
Scalia was the only child of an Italian immigrant father who spoke no English when he arrived in America in 1920, but who became a renowned professor of Romance languages; and a mother who was herself the child of Italian immigrants and became an elementary school teacher.
The Scalias were devout Catholics. So from these early influences — the emphasis the Church placed on sacred texts, young Nino’s Jesuitical education, his parents’ devotion to the classics of literature and music — Antonin Scalia emerged with a profound respect for the inviolability of foundational texts. He carried this into his work as a jurist on the appellate bench and the Supreme Court.
Scalia graduated as valedictorian from his high school and his college, then magna cum laude from law school.
<div id="attachment_512297" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-512297" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-512297 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-576x576.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/14-ScaliaWedding_9-1960-rgb-2048x2048.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />Courtesy of the Scalia family.</div>
<h3>DW: You interviewed several of Scalia’s former classmates. What was their impression of him and his academic acumen?</h3>
Rosen: Scalia attended Xavier High School in Manhattan, a rare hybrid of a Jesuit academic institution and military academy. He delighted, in later years, in recounting for audiences how he used to commute from Queens on the subway with his .22 rifle slung over his shoulder.
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A 1952 student newspaper profile of him – the first ever published – noted that Nino had “compiled one of the most enviable records at Xavier,” receiving 19 First Honor awards, one for each marking period, and the Gold Medal for class excellence every year. “His name,” the article said, “has become synonymous with exceptional accomplishment.”
The following year, Scalia graduated as Xavier valedictorian, his graduation photo showing a handsome, highly decorated cadet. “Nino” always remained popular with teachers and students alike. “He was a favorite of the Jesuits,” a classmate told me, “because he was bright and he was involved.”
Friends found Scalia unusually affable: quick-witted and self-deprecating, genuinely interested in others’ stories and problems. With endearing grandeur, Nino might commandeer a piano in someone’s house and lead an entire party in sing-alongs of show tunes or Christmas carols. “Classmates were intrigued by Scalia’s personality,” another early profile said, “a combination of scholarly seriousness and life-of-the-party gregariousness.”
 Yet one of Scalia’s strengths was his enormous capacity for hard work. “People just competed for second,” a friend recalled, “he was just so superior academically.” “All my life I had been good in academics,” Scalia said. “I kept my nose to the grindstone.” The justice once said he did not “look back with misty-eyed mellow reflection upon my years at Harvard [Law School],” which he recalled as “years of really terribly hard work … I don’t think I have ever studied harder, especially during the first year.”
<div id="attachment_512299" style="width: 878px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-512299" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-512299 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-868x576.jpg" alt="" width="868" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-868x576.jpg 868w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-300x199.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-768x510.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/28-C35998-15-rgb-2048x1359.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px" />7/7/1986 President Reagan with Judge Antonin Scalia in the Oval Office. Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library And Museum.</div>
<h3>DW: You were able to get your hands on Justice Scalia&#8217;s early report cards. What did they reveal about Scalia the student? </h3>
Rosen: With the assistance of the Scalia family, I obtained the future justice’s report card from P.S. 13 in Queens, where he grew up. Of 45 grades recorded in nine subjects, young Nino posted 40 As, with five lonely Bs arising in four subjects (composition, geography, history/civics, and sewing), each swiftly redressed, in every case, with an A. 
“Scalia: Rise to Greatness” contains the most detailed account of Scalia’s academic career in print. 
<h3>DW: Scalia would go on to become a professor at both UVA and The University of Chicago. Were you able to interview any of his former students? Was there a common theme?</h3>
Rosen: I interviewed several students from his periods as a professor at the University of Virginia Law School from 1967-71 (the beautiful <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scalia-Rise-Greatness-1936-1986/dp/1684512271/ref=asc_df_1684512271/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=598351558985&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=4099368944843532843&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9007526&amp;hvtargid=pla-1648037489265&amp;psc=1&amp;asin=1684512271&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1">cover</a> of “SRTG,” designed by the very talented John Caruso of Regnery, uses a rare photograph from the archives of a UVA student newspaper); and at the University of Chicago Law School from 1977-1982 (another rare image, in the book’s photographs section, provided by the school, shows Professor Scalia in his Chicago classroom). 
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Students recalled great displays of theatricality from Scalia, an avid high school actor; these included his running back and forth to opposite ends of the stage to act out the parties disputing a contract. One student shared with me, for the first time anywhere, what Professor Scalia said to his students on the grim morning after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy — as the class’s scheduled test went forward. 
Scalia’s FBI files, declassified after his death, ran hundreds of pages: the results of four background checks in 14 years as Scalia rose through the executive and judicial branches. The agents recorded only excellent ratings for Scalia from his students. By many accounts, however, Scalia’s time at Chicago, and that of Maureen Scalia and their large family, proved less happy than the sunny experience they had enjoyed at UVA. While Scalia still drew excellent ratings from his Chicago students, there were some incidents there, and some criticism of him, that hadn’t been present at UVA. In between the two academic posts, of course, Scalia served in the Nixon and Ford administrations; so the frictions of the Chicago period must in some measure be attributed to a newly politicized view, among Chicago’s students and its faculty, of Scalia and his government service.
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James Rosen is a leading reporter, historian, and bestselling author. He is the chief White House correspondent for Newsmax, following two decades of acclaimed reporting at Fox News. His new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scalia-Rise-Greatness-1936-1986/dp/1684512271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986,</a>” is now available through Regnery Publishing, March 2023.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Justice Antonin Scalia Gives Talk In Virginia

An Original: New Book ‘Scalia’ Traces ‘Exceptional Accomplishments’ Of Justice’s Early Academic Career

An Original: New Book 'Scalia' Traces 'Exceptional Accomplishments' Of Justice’s Early Academic Career

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An African delegation bucked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN</a> by screening The Daily Wire’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">What Is A Woman?</a>” in honor of a women’s conference Friday, even after they were told the hit documentary did not align with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/un-committee-rejects-screening-of-daily-wires-what-is-a-woman-at-upcoming-womens-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosting commission&#8217;s</a> values.
The Nigerian Mission to the UN screened the Matt Walsh film during an annual meeting for women’s rights, in defiance of the left-wing Commission on the Status of Women, New York. Delegates from multiple African countries were in attendance, including Uganda, Malawi, and Cameroon. A delegate from Suriname, in South America, also attended.
“The movie was very informative,&#8221; said Peace Regis Mutuuzo, Ugandan State Minister for Gender, Labor and Social Development. “The people whose gender has been arranged can never lead a happy life no matter how much they pretend because gender is biological and not ideological.”
The screening was held in collaboration with the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) and Family Watch International, two non-profits that have worked with the UN to further pro-family causes. In response to the event, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said it was clear African nations do not want gender ideology imposed on them.
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It has already found a large following in South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Now African delegates at the UN are attending a screening. The film is not only changing this country but reaching across the world. Incredibly proud to have been a part of this project.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1634269972330426368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
But gender ideology seems to be the direction the UN commission has been taking. According to guidelines, the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, says its participants must acknowledge the existence of transphobia, global north domination, and institutional oppression, and work to build an “anti-racist space.”
“An anti-racist space requires that all of us need to consider our positionality and work actively not to replicate white patriarchal structures including subjugating voices of Black women and women of color,” the commission guidelines read.
Because of the ban on the documentary, the Nigerian Mission had to screen it as a side event of the commission&#8217;s conference. The film appeared well-received by those who watched it.
“I wish this would be shown from the floor of the General Assembly,” said Funke Oladipo, deputy director for women and gender, Nigerian Ministry of Women’s Affairs.
The screening was important for delegates facing pressure to accept loaded gender terminology in UN negotiation documents, according to C-Fam Executive Vice President Lisa Correnti. These loaded terms, such as &#8220;gender,&#8221; carry different connotations in societies that have not been influenced by woke westerners.
&#8220;African countries have an opportunity to shield their children from harmful gender ideology, something we in the U.S. failed to do,&#8221; said Correnti. &#8220;But they will only be able to do it by blocking ambiguous terminology in negotiations, preventing UN agencies and western countries from including it in development and humanitarian assistance.&#8221;
&#8220;The documents they negotiate will determine how fast gender ideology makes its way to their countries through UN programs,&#8221; she said.

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African Delegation Screens ‘What Is A Woman?’ In Defiance Of UN Commission

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The effort to suppress an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/explosive-book-on-stolen-youth-examines-the-lefts-indoctrination-and-arms-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosive new book</a> on the Left’s efforts to indoctrinate young kids took an ugly turn Wednesday night when protesters allegedly assaulted media magnate Steve Forbes at a promotional event.
The CEO of Forbes Media <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/steve-forbes-assaulted-protesters-conservative-book-launch-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News</a> he was at a Manhattan launch party for &#8220;Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation,&#8221; when protesters threw drinks at him and knocked over a book display. The book, by Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz, explores the “ideological war waged against America’s youth,” and how parents can protect their children from coming under the sway of the woke Left.
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They will assault people to stop them from promoting or reading &quot;Stolen Youth&quot; by <a href="https://twitter.com/karol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@karol</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bethanyshondark</a> <a href="https://t.co/df3T40rpTL">https://t.co/df3T40rpTL</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1634202698831601664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I was talking to co-author Bethany Mandel near the counter where the books were on display. Suddenly a woman seemingly out of nowhere was angrily yelling almost incoherently about matters that weren&#8217;t related to the subject of the book,&#8221; Forbes told Fox News Digital. &#8220;The books themselves were pushed off the counter loudly landing on the floor while simultaneously she tossed a drink our way.&#8221;
Forbes, a conservative activist and onetime presidential candidate, quipped that “a dark suit was an advantage in a situation like this.”
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The incident was <a style="font-size: 16px;" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authors-attacked-at-stolen-youth-book-launch-attendees-called-fascists-cs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed by The Daily Wire on Thursday</a>, but Forbes’ account was not previously reported.
Markowicz told The Daily Wire she saw &#8220;two wild-eyed young white women run up to our party and scream ‘black lives matter!'&#8221;
&#8220;They threw their drinking glasses at the wall where our books were displayed and ran off,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Suddenly I heard screaming, had books thrown at me, and I was soaking wet,&#8221; Mandel told the outlet. &#8220;I realized young women with short, dyed blue hair were screaming at us ‘black lives matter, trans lives matter!’ I tried to talk to them, but they ran off.&#8221;
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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/explosive-book-on-stolen-youth-examines-the-lefts-indoctrination-and-arms-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stolen Youth</a>,” published by <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/dw-books-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DW Books</a> and released March 7, seeks to uncover and examine the tenets of the Left’s ideological war waged against America’s youth and equips parents to break free from the stranglehold and fight back.
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“Our book is a calm, rational take on the indoctrination and forced conformity happening in America today and the way it is aimed at children,” Markowicz noted. “Their protest proved our point.”

Forbes Publisher Steve Forbes, “Stolen Youth”

Steve Forbes Reveals He Was Assaulted At Event For Non-Woke Book ‘Stolen Youth’

Steve Forbes Reveals He Was Assaulted At Event For Non-Woke Book 'Stolen Youth'

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Within the last week, four U.S. citizens were allegedly assaulted and abducted in Mexico by the syndicate and drug trafficking organization Gulf Cartel.
Their abductions quickly launched a rescue operation from Mexican authorities — who ultimately discovered that two of the victims had been killed after the group crossed the southern border.
Soon after the group of friends — Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown, and Shaeed Woodard — from South Carolina arrived in the city of Matamoros in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas on March 3, the four individuals were caught in a shootout between rival cartel gangs and forced into the back of a pickup truck at gunpoint.
Following the kidnapping, Tamaulipas officials said that cartel members moved the victims throughout the state to confuse and avoid efforts from authorities to rescue the Americans.
By Tuesday morning, authorities had discovered McGee and Williams in a small wooden house about six miles from the crime scene — in a place called La Lagunona in the town of El Tecolote. Williams survived with non-threatening gunshot wounds to his legs, while McGee remained unharmed.
Brown and Woodard did not survive.
Authorities transported the survivors just north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Brownsville, Texas, to receive medical treatment while the deceased were taken to a morgue in Matamoros for a forensic examination. Authorities transported the bodies back to the U.S. on Wednesday, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11836293/Two-American-men-kidnapped-Mexico-lengthy-rap-sheet.html">reported</a>.
Relatives of the kidnapped reportedly said the four friends and one other friend had traveled to Mexico for McGee to undergo medical treatment to remove abdominal fat. Upon reaching the border, authorities denied the fifth member of the group, Cheryl Orange, entry into Mexico due to insufficient identification documents.
Orange allegedly wrote in a letter that she &#8220;would not be surprised if her friends got arrested because they are known to party and use narcotics,&#8221; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/1633844979842809856">NewsNation</a>.
According to the <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html#Tamaulipas%20state">U.S. Department of State</a>, the city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas is under a &#8220;Do Not Travel&#8221; advisory, citing organized crime activity, including shootings, robberies, and kidnappings.
&#8220;Criminal groups target public and private passenger buses, as well as private automobiles traveling through Tamaulipas, often taking passengers and demanding ransom payments,&#8221; the warning reads.
Those close to the four individuals involved in the deadly abduction said the friends grew up together in South Carolina. According to an extensive report from The Daily Mail, all four involved in the Mexico kidnapping have a lengthy criminal history, which involved crimes ranging from drug possession and distribution to burglary and domestic violence to unlawful conduct towards a child.
Woodard, 33, worked at a hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and helped raise his extended family members, according to People.
&#8220;Shaeed was one of the good guys: gentle, humble, and sweet,&#8221; Sonya Singletary, niece, told <a href="https://people.com/crime/americans-kidnapped-killed-in-mexico-what-to-know/">People</a>. &#8220;He was willing to help anybody and give you the shirt off his back, always smiling and positive.&#8221;
Brown lived in Myrtle Beach and has been described by family members as &#8220;a loving son, brother, uncle, and friend.&#8221;
&#8220;Zindell kept saying, &#8216;We shouldn&#8217;t go down,'&#8221; Zalandria Brown, sister, told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-gulf-drug-cartel-2700637729e8f3a5065005231aa8d4d3">The Associated Press</a>. &#8220;This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from.&#8221;
McGee, 35, a mother of six from Myrtle Beach and cousin to Woodard, allegedly went to Mexico to receive the medical procedure for the second time in the last three years, according to her mother, Burgess.
&#8220;She was crying. I asked her how she was doing. She doing okay,&#8221; Burgess told ABC News affiliate <a href="https://wpde.com/news/local/myrtle-beach-woman-kidnapped-mexico-alive-hospital-matamoros-mexican-border-city-gulf-drug-cartel-tummy-tuck-doctor-surviving-us-citizens-latavia-mcgee-shaeed-woodard-eric-williams-zindell-brown#">WPDE</a>. &#8220;She was crying because her brother [cousin Shaeed Woodard] got killed, and she watched him die. She watched two of them die. They died in front of her.&#8221;
Williams, 38, lives in Winston-Salem, N.C., with his wife, Michele, and their child.
Williams&#8217; cousin, Jerry Wallace, told <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/mexico-kidnapping-survivor-saw-friends-killed-in-front-of-him/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news_alert&amp;utm_content=20230308?&amp;utm_source=sailthru&amp;lctg=6079ac26703029470392500d&amp;utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts">The New York Post</a> on Wednesday that he&#8217;s now out of surgery and is &#8220;talking strong and everything.
&#8220;He [is] doing better than what he was,&#8221; Wallace said.
Mexican authorities arrested a suspect Tuesday allegedly tied to the fatal abduction.
Jose Guadalupe N., a Mexican National in his early 20s, was guarding the small wooden house outside Matamoros where cartel members held the Americans when authorities detained him. Authorities have not confirmed if Guadalupe is involved with the cartel suspected of kidnapping the U.S. nationals.
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According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mexico-missing-americans-cartel-e35e8c6fcda926e5c2fb8f896aa91f4e">The Associated Press</a>, an unidentified person claiming to be a part of the Gulf Cartel responsible for the fatal abduction &#8220;condemned the violence and purportedly turned over its own members who were involved to authorities.&#8221; The letter also includes an apology to the residents of Matamoros, the Mexican woman who died in the shooting, and the four Americans and their families.
&#8220;We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline,&#8221; the letter reads, adding that those individuals had gone against the cartel&#8217;s rules, which include &#8220;respecting the life and well-being of the innocent.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/1633876991387787264">NewsNation</a> reported that Mexico authorities handcuffed five men turned over by the Gulf Cartel, claiming they were responsible for the deaths of Woodard and Brown and another unidentified person.
Mexican authorities are still searching for a motive for the kidnapping, with one possible theory that the American nationals were confused with Haitian drug smugglers.

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Veteran journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-taibbi-releases-new-twitter-files-info-showing-feds-pushed-twitter-over-propaganda-actors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Taibbi</a> gave a House Democrat a piece of his mind and a portion of his resume after she mocked his credentials at a contentious Capitol Hill hearing Thursday.
The exchange with Rep. Stacey Plaskett, (D-VI), came in a hearing held by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH), whose subcommittee on the weaponization of government is looking into the Federal Trade Commission’s treatment of Twitter. Plaskett was preparing to question Taibbi and fellow journalist Michael Schellenberger, two of the independent journalists to whom Twitter owner Elon Musk turned over damning internal communications from before he bought the platform.
“This isn’t just about what data was given to these so-called journalists before us now,” Plaskett said. “There are many legitimate questions about where Musk got the financing to buy Twitter.”
Taibbi waited patiently for his chance to speak, and then defended the reputation he has built as a journalist for over three decades.
“I’m not a ‘so-called journalist,’” Taibbi said. “I’ve won the National Magazine Award, the IF Stone award for independent journalism, and I’ve written 10 books, including four New York Times best-sellers.”
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To Democrats, &quot;journalist&quot; means: one who mindlessly and loyally endorses DNC talking points. <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mtaibbi</a>&#39;s response to some random member of Congress who called him a &quot;so-called journalist&quot;: <a href="https://t.co/tjIN8rSOin">pic.twitter.com/tjIN8rSOin</a> <a href="https://t.co/b77Ffndg1g">https://t.co/b77Ffndg1g</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1633865976860254208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The combative hearing followed Jordan’s release of an 18-page report that included excerpts of letters from the FTC to Twitter. The Ohio lawmaker accused the FTC of “orchestrating an aggressive campaign to harass Twitter” in an act of “partisan pressure to target Twitter and silence Musk.”
The FTC, which has been probing Twitter since before Musk bought the company, recently demanded that Twitter reveal the names of all journalists who have been given access to internal Twitter communications. The probe began after a whistleblower complained that Twitter had violated a 2011 settlement that imposed privacy safeguards.
Plaskett, a non-voting member of the House and the panel’s ranking member, pressed Taibbi and Schellenberger about how they vetted internal Twitter emails and instant messages. The pair, along with Bari Weiss, through their “Twitter Files” series, have helped reveal how Twitter worked with government agencies including the FBI to suppress conservatives on the platform.
Plaskett appeared to be demanding to know who Taibbi had spoken with inside the company, but the 30-year journalist firmly declined to reveal his sources. When she told him that the Substack and Twitter threads he composed on his findings represented his subjective selection of information, Taibbi replied that the same could be said of virtually any news story.
Jordan chastised Plaskett for trying to force a journalist to name sources, which Plaskett denied doing.
“I just think this is interesting,” Jordan said. “First the FTC is asking for your backgrounds, and now the ranking member on the Committee on the Weaponization of Government is asking for your sources.”

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<a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy&#8217;s Chocolate</a> has sold more than half a million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nuts-or-nutless-the-daily-wire-launches-jeremys-chocolates-after-hersheys-trans-farce-insults-customers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candy bars</a> since launching late last week as an alternative to Hershey&#8217;s after the Pennsylvania chocolate maker&#8217;s woke commercial spotlighting transgenderism.
The business, which offers chocolates in two varieties, was created after Hershey&#8217;s rolled out an International Women&#8217;s Day marketing campaign that featured a man who identifies as a woman as one of its spokespersons. The stunt led Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of The Daily Wire, to produce a candy line that wouldn&#8217;t kowtow to the Left&#8217;s views on gender.
“Fine, I’ll do it,” Boreing tweeted. “Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate. Yes, it’s real. We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hershey’s. But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to: <a href="http://www.ihatehersheys.com/">ihatehersheys.com</a>.”
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Fine. I’ll do it.
Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate.
Yes, it’s real.
We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer.
One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hersheys.
But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to:<a href="https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17">https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17</a> <a href="https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l">https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l</a>
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1631649814118055936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The milestone underscores consumers&#8217; appetite for chocolate bars from a company that won&#8217;t serve up a side of woke virtue signaling. Within hours of the Friday launch, Jeremy&#8217;s Chocolate had sold 100,000 bars, and before the weekend was up, had sold more than 300,000. Now, the company has sold over 23 tons of chocolate.
“The people asked and we answered,” Boreing said. “Thanks to Jeremy’s Chocolate, you can stop eating chocolate that hates you. Harry’s Razors hates you; Disney hates you; and now Hershey’s hates you. As long as corporations and institutions across America continue to alienate half the country, The Daily Wire will continue building alternatives. Stop giving your money to woke chocolate companies that hate you.”
The Daily Wire also published an ad for Jeremy’s Chocolate featuring Boreing and Daily Wire stars Brett Cooper and Michael Knowles.
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On Tuesday morning, Boreing plugged the chocolate line during a Fox News Channel appearance.
“Our entire enterprise at The Daily Wire is about building alternatives to all the institutions dominated by the woke Left – kids’ entertainment, razors, now chocolates,” Boreing told Fox &amp; Friends. “We believe that corporate America is supposed to serve America. We’ve got a situation now in the country where the incentives for corporations have been misaligned. They live in a kind of fear of the woke Left and, as a result, they take for granted the rest of us will just keep giving our money to them because we don’t have another choice.”
“We want to give people those choices,” he added. “That’s what it’s really all about.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeremyDBoreing</a> tells Fox &amp; Friends about Jeremy&#8217;s Chocolate: &#8220;[Woke companies] take for granted that the rest of us will give their money to them because, well, we don&#8217;t have any other choice. So we want to give people those choices.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp">https://t.co/pf5NnLcosp</a> <a href="https://t.co/G3OC53S7bH">pic.twitter.com/G3OC53S7bH</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1633109543797358592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire has built a reputation for big responses to woke corporations and institutions. In January 2021, the company signed Gina Carano to produce and star in “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/terror-on-the-prairie">Terror on the Prairie</a>” after she was canceled by Disney. And in March of last year, Boreing launched <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy&#8217;s Razors</a> in response to Harry&#8217;s Razors publicly declaring they would pull ads from The Daily Wire in response to a Daily Wire host articulating traditional views on gender.

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Conservative publisher David Horowitz deemed President Joe Biden guilty of treason in a <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-should-we-regard-the-presidents-treason/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scathing new column</a> on his FrontPageMag.com news site.
Horowitz, the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and best-selling author of several books including “Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America” and “I Can’t Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America,” takes aim at Biden in a no-holds-barred column entitled “How Should We Regard the President’s Treason?” In it, he blasts Biden for allowing deadly fentanyl to flow across a porous Mexican border, bungling the COVID pandemic by being weak on China, and botching the pullout from Afghanistan.
“The list of such cover-ups to protect the Chinese Communist dictatorship is long and depressing,” Horowitz writes on the site, which is published by his Freedom Center. “It includes the White House’s stone-walling of congressional efforts to investigate the origins of the pandemic that killed 9 million people globally. It includes similar stone-walling on otherwise inexplicable blunders that turned Afghanistan and its hapless citizens over to the Taliban and China, along with seven multi-billion-dollar air bases and tens of thousands of advanced weapons, and that made hostages of those who helped us during the 20-year war.”
Horowitz points out that nearly as many Americans as perished in World War II have died in the last several years from fentanyl supplied by China and smuggled into the U.S. by Mexican cartels.
“These attacks have taken place without America’s commander-in-chief issuing a single protest or threat against the governments of Mexico and China, even though his primary responsibility is the protection of American lives,” Horowitz writes.
The fentanyl from China still hasn’t killed as many Americans as the COVID-19 virus, which many experts now agree likely came from a lab in Wuhan. Horowitz notes that Beijing lied about the virus’s contagiousness and lethality in the early days of the pandemic, allowing it to spread around the world.
Horowitz laments that even most conservative media voices will “go no further than wondering aloud whether Joe Biden might be &#8216;compromised&#8217; by his influence-peddling side businesses with our enemies, China and Russia.” But he assesses the commander-in-chief in blunt terms.
“Joe Biden and his family have made themselves wealthy beyond their dreams by taking millions of dollars in bribes from foreign powers, chief among them our mortal enemy Communist China,” Horowitz writes. “We don’t know exactly what American interests the president has betrayed to earn his ill-gotten wealth, but it doesn’t take rocket science to know that &#8216;betrayal&#8217; is the appropriate verb to describe what he has done.”

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Michael Knowles touched off a firestorm with his call for an end to the ideology of transgenderism Saturday, but many people on social media agreed with him – especially after hearing what he actually said and not the erroneous claims by leftist media sites.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told a crowd at the conservative event</a>, formally known as the Conservative Political Action Conference, that men simply cannot become women, and women cannot become men, adding that society must help gender dysphoric people, not encourage them to seek sex changes.
“For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology — at every level,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told the gathering in Maryland</a>.
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He is of course completely right about this. Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war. <a href="https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW">https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1632391192523464705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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By Saturday night, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-falsely-frames-michael-knowles-call-for-end-to-transgenderism-as-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several outlets were falsely reporting</a> that Knowles called for transgender people to be “eradicated,” even though he was clearly targeting an ideology, not a group of people. Some publications, including Rolling Stone and HuffPo, edited their headlines and stories to acknowledge that Knowles never called for “eradication” of any group of people. And when the dust began to settle, it turned out that Knowles had plenty of support for his argument.
“Transgenderism isn&#8217;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#8217;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted journalist Mark Hemingway</a>. “The trans community are the aggressors here.”
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Transgenderism isn&#39;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#39;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink. The trans community are the aggressors here. <a href="https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ">https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Podcast star Liz Wheeler seconded Knowles’ call, saying the ideology he spoke out against is destructive toward children.
“Good day to everyone especially michaeljknowles who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Wheeler</a>.
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Good day to everyone especially <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women.<a href="https://t.co/klc9t305HL">pic.twitter.com/klc9t305HL</a>
&mdash; Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Joel Berry, managing editor of The Babylon Bee, also echoed Knowles’ appeal.
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Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate. And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.
&mdash; Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berry tweeted</a>. “And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.”
Knowles “didn&#8217;t call to ‘eradicate transgender people,’” wrote Jim Hanson, former Army special forces operator and author of “The Myth of White Fragility.” “Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit. But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools. It&#8217;s part of the destruction of normal.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> didn&#39;t call to &quot;eradicate transgender people&quot;
Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools 
It&#39;s part of the destruction of normal<a href="https://t.co/62wk19FSvm">pic.twitter.com/62wk19FSvm</a>
&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1632377565695340549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire has taken a strong stance against what the Left dubs “gender-affirming care” for minors, in which teens are encouraged to change their identities, given puberty blockers and even cross-sex hormones after displaying confusion about their genders. Many experts say these treatments can cause irreversible harm. Girls have even been put through double mastectomies at several clinics around the country.
Knowles&#8217; fellow Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh, who has been a leading voice against the movement to help minors &#8220;transition,&#8221; said Knowles was on target with his comments at CPAC.
&#8220;He is of course completely right about this,&#8221; wrote Walsh. &#8220;Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war.&#8221;

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