<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rolling-stones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stones</a> frontman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mick Jagger</a> insinuated that he may not leave his entire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fortune</a> to his 8 children.
The 80-year-old musician made the comments while discussing the potential sale of the Stones’ post-1971 catalog. The Wall Street Journal interviewer <a href="https://www.wsj.com/style/mick-jagger-rolling-stones-hackney-diamonds-7d4f193b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a huge sum of cash may be less complicated for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kids</a>, but Jagger insisted he wasn’t selling, saying, “the children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on.” 
The rock star added that he considered donating his wealth to charity. “You maybe do some good in the world,” he said, also noting how he’s not planning on publishing an autobiography.
Jagger also mentioned how the idea of his music living on has changed in the technology era. “You can have a posthumous business now, can’t you? You can have a posthumous tour,” he told the outlet. “The technology has really moved on since [ABBA’s recent “Voyage” virtual show], which I was supposed to go to, but I missed it,” he went on.
Jagger’s oldest child is daughter, Karis, 52, who he shares with Marsha Hunt. He has a daughter, Jade, 51, with ex-wife Bianca Jagger.
The musician shares four children with ex-wife Jerry Hall: daughters Elizabeth, 39, and Georgia May, 31, and sons James, 38, and Gabriel, 25. The pair was married from 1990 until 1997.
He had son Lucas, 24, with his model girlfriend Luciana Morad Gimenez. Jagger’s youngest child is his son Deveraux, 6, who he shares with Melanie Hamrick. 
Jagger also has five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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Elsewhere in the interview, the “Gimme Shelter” singer mentioned how having a young child helped give his life purpose, especially now. “I have this really wonderful family that supports me. And I have, you know, young children—that makes you feel like you’re relevant,” he told WSJ.
The Rolling Stones made headlines earlier this month when they announced the release of their first new music in 18 years in the form of an album called, “Hackney Diamonds.” The album features guest stars including Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and Bill Wyman. 
“Hackney Diamonds” will debut October 20.

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Mick Jagger Says His 8 Kids ‘Don’t Need $500M To Live Well,’ May Donate To Charity

Mick Jagger Says His 8 Kids 'Don't Need $500M To Live Well,' May Donate To Charity

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> lawmakers are looking at rejecting federal dollars for public education and replacing them with state dollars in a move that would make Tennessee the first in the nation to turn down federal education funding.
Republican leadership in the state <a href="https://onthehill.tnjournal.net/speakers-announce-task-force-to-look-into-rejecting-federal-education-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the formation of a panel to look at the impact of federal education funding in Tennessee and the “strings” that can come attached with that funding.
“Any time the federal government sends money, there are always strings attached to those dollars, and there is always a possibility that it opens the state up to other regulations or restrictions,” said Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton. “This working group will help provide a clearer picture of how much autonomy Tennessee truly has in educating our students.”
Sexton announced on Monday the formation of a 10-member Joint Working Group to look at whether the state can fund education without utilizing federal funds. The panel, which will have members of both the state House and Senate, will have eight Republicans and two Democrats.
“The education of our youth is one of the essential responsibilities of our government,” said Lt. Gov. Randy McNally. “Federal dollars and the various mandates and restrictions that come with those dollars affect the way Tennessee’s children are educated. Due to our state’s excellent financial position, this is a worthy subject of examination and study.”
Sexton <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-bill-lee-tennessee-education-19c635555a8b766322c91b8a5680047a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously discussed</a> turning down $1.8 billion in federal education funding during the last regular legislative session, but the proposal never ended up advancing.
“We as a state can lead the nation once again in telling the federal government that they can keep their money and we’ll just do things the Tennessee way,” Sexton said earlier this year. “And that should start, first and foremost, with the Department of Education.”
Democrats in Tennessee oppose the move, with state Senator Raumesh Akbari claiming that there would be “harsh consequences” if Tennessee rejected federal funding.
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&#8220;Federal funds are crucial in supporting students with special needs, English language learners, and those from low-income families,&#8221; Akbari <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2023/09/26/tennessee-group-consider-rejecting-federal-education-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Through this committee, I will advocate that Tennessee keep accepting these necessary funds.&#8221;
Tennessee has established itself as one of the more conservative states in the country, moving to ban sex change procedures on minors, moving to protect children from sexually explicit performances, and overwhelmingly rejecting proposed “red flag” legislation in the past year despite heavy pressure from Left-wing activist groups.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob Menendez</a> (D-NJ) was defiant amid growing calls for him to resign on Friday after he was indicted on multiple federal corruption charges.
&#8220;Those who believe in justice believe in innocence until proven guilty,&#8221; said Menendez. &#8220;I intend to continue to fight for the people of New Jersey with the same success I&#8217;ve had for the past five decades.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the same record of success these very same leaders have lauded all along,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere.&#8221;
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Shortly after the charges were announced earlier in the day, Menendez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-suggests-vast-conspiracy-is-after-him-after-hes-hit-with-federal-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy.
“For years, forces behind the scenes have repeatedly attempted to silence my voice and dig my political grave,” said the 69-year-old senator. “Since this investigation was leaked nearly a year ago, there has been an active smear campaign of anonymous sources and innuendos to create an air of impropriety where none exists.”
“The excesses of these prosecutors is apparent. They have misrepresented the normal work of a Congressional office,” he claimed. “Those behind this campaign simply cannot accept that a first-generation Latino American from humble beginnings could rise to be a U.S. Senator and serve with honor and distinction. Even worse, they see me as an obstacle in the way of their broader political goals.”
Menendez faces charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
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The indictment says that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” the indictment said. Federal authorities reportedly found gold bars and cash stuffed throughout the senator’s home that they traced back to the businessmen Menendez allegedly worked with.
“Over $480,000 in cash — much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe — was discovered in the home,” the indictment said. Photos included in the indictment included pictures of gold bars and hundred dollars bills that had been stuffed in clothing.

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Former President Donald Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4182731-trump-pushes-back-letitia-james-inflated-net-worth/">angrily denounced</a> the claim from the New York Attorney General that he has significantly inflated his net worth.
New York Attorney General Letitia James made the claim as part of the state’s lawsuit against Trump, the Trump Organization, and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, accusing them of business fraud.
“Since at least 2011, Defendants and others working on their behalf at the Trump Organization have falsely inflated by billions of dollars the value of many of the assets listed on Donald J. Trump’s annual statement of financial condition (&#8216;SFC&#8217;), and hence his overall net worth for each of these years,” James wrote in the <a href="https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=ug5960XEpNMksGWCbGdRDA==&amp;system=prod" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorandum</a>. “Mr. Trump, and in some years the trustees of his revocable trust, submitted these grossly inflated SFCs to banks and insurers to secure and maintain loans and insurance on more favorable terms, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten savings and profits.”
“The Court need answer only two simple and straightforward questions: (1) were the SFCs from 2011 to 2021 false or misleading; and (2) did Defendants repeatedly or persistently use the SFCs in the conduct of business transactions? The answer to both questions is a resounding ‘yes,’” the memorandum stated.
“THE THING I HAVE IS A GREAT CASE BASED ON PHENOMENAL NUMBERS THAT SHOW A NET WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE THAN SHE VICIOUSLY &amp; FALSELY CLAIMED, VERY LITTLE DEBT, BIG CASH, A POWERFUL DISCLAIMER CLAUSE, PAID OFF LOANS, NO DEFAULTS, &#8216;HAPPY&#8217; BANKS, GREAT ASSETS,” Trump responded on Truth Social Thursday, adding, “I WAS DEFAMED BY NYS – ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
“Defendants followed the same procedure each year to create false and misleading SFCs,” the memo stated. “The SFCs include amounts for Mr. Trump’s assets, mostly real estate holdings, that are represented to be stated ‘at their estimated current values,’ a term defined in the applicable accounting rules as the value that a willing buyer and willing seller could agree on, where both are fully informed and neither is acting under duress. The associated liabilities are then subtracted from the ‘estimated current values’ to derive Mr. Trump’s net worth.”
“ &#8230; at the end of the day this is a documents case, and the documents leave no shred of doubt that Mr. Trump’s SFCs do not even remotely reflect the ‘estimated current value’ of his assets as they would trade between well-informed market participants. Instead, the undisputed evidence establishes that Defendants employed a variety of deceptive schemes to grossly inflate values for many of Mr. Trump’s assets,” the memo continued.
After enumerating various instances where Trump and his organization allegedly engaged in deceptive practices, the memo stated bluntly, “Correcting for these and other blatant and obvious deceptive practices engaged in by Defendants reduces Mr. Trump’s net worth by between 17-39% in each year, or between $812 million to $2.2 billion, depending on the year.”
The lawsuit wants the defendants to pay a $250 million fine and to ban the defendants from having businesses in New York.

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Trump Denounces NY AG’s Claim That He’s Worth Billions Less

Trump Denounces NY AG’s Claim That He's Worth Billions Less

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> has raised several million dollars in the 48 hours since he was booked and released from a Fulton County jail on Thursday evening.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/26/trump-mugshot-fundraising-00113118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the campaign&#8217;s fundraising was powered largely by merchandise sales that featured the former president&#8217;s mugshot. His campaign had <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/08/25/trump-mug-shot-fundraising-photoshop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to &#8220;come after&#8221; anyone who used the image to raise money &#8212; even though the photo is public domain.
The report said that in the first 24 hours after the mugshot&#8217;s release, the campaign had raised $4.18 million — a sum <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-raised-4-million-day-indictment-rcna77699" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar</a> to what he raised after his first indictment — and has since hit $7.1 million.
The funds come as recent questions had swirled about the financial situation of Trump&#8217;s political operation after recent campaign finance reports showed that his PAC and aligned-PACs have burned through tens of millions of dollars in legal fees to defend the 77-year-old former president in four separate criminal cases.
After the first indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office earlier this year, the Trump campaign raised $12 million over the following week.
After the second indictment by special counsel Jack Smith from his criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s retention of classified documents after leaving office, the campaign raised approximately $6.6 million in the week that followed.
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However, after the third indictment was announced in Smith&#8217;s criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Trump campaign has not released fundraising numbers after nearly a full month. The campaign also did not release fundraising numbers after the fourth indictment two weeks ago.

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A man recently made the discovery of a lifetime when he unearthed a massive cache of rare Civil War-era coins — the majority of them gold — on his Kentucky farm earlier this year. 
The incredible find, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/man-discovers-700-civil-war-coins-worth-millions-buried-at-kentucky-farm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed</a> the “Great Kentucky Hoard,” could be worth millions of dollars. The unidentified man who found the coins recorded himself as he sifted through the dirt, pointing out the different types of gold coins he had discovered. The location of the discovery has not been revealed. 
“This is the most insane thing ever,” the man said in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDUdmp-L3Q&amp;t=19s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>. “These are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins and, look, I’m still diggin’ them out.”
The rare coins date between 1840 and 1863 and include eighteen 1863-P $20 Gold Liberty coins, which is the rarest year for that specific coin, <a href="https://www.govmint.com/great-kentucky-hoard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to GovMint, a coin dealer. These reportedly often fetch six figures. 
Additionally, “hundreds” of American gold dollars from 1850 to 1862 were discovered, as reported by the Numismatic Guaranty Company, a coin grading service. Roughly 95% of the hoard is made up of gold dollars, and some silver coins were also discovered. 
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A man from Kentucky unearthed a Civil War-era fortune of over 700 gold coins in his cornfield.
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“The importance of this discovery cannot be overstated, as the stunning number of over 700 gold dollars represents a virtual time capsule of Civil War-era coinage, including coins from the elusive Dahlonega Mint,” rare coin dealer Jeff Garrett <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/11795/kentucky-hoard-civil-war-coins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of the hoard.
The story behind the hoard is also interesting, as it’s often reported that wealthy Kentuckians buried much of their wealth to prevent it from being stolen from bootleggers and outlaws, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12287423/Kentucky-man-digs-700-rare-coins-worth-MILLIONS-know-youre-sitting-fortune.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. Georgia Southern University archeologist Ryan McNutt <a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/kentucky-man-finds-over-700-civil-war-era-coins-buried-in-his-cornfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Live Science, &#8220;given the time period and the location in Kentucky, which was neutral at the time, it is entirely possible this was buried in advance of Confederate John Hunt Morgan&#8217;s June to July 1863 raid.&#8221; 
Just a month after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in 1861, Kentucky Democratic Governor Beriah Magoffin officially <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/house-divided-civil-war-kentucky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the state neutral, making Kentucky one of four slave states <a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-glass-negatives/articles-and-essays/time-line-of-the-civil-war/1861/#:~:text=Four%20Slave%20States%20Stay%20in,kept%20these%20states%20from%20seceding." target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to secede</a> from the Union, despite divided loyalties among the citizenry. Two years later, after numerous successful raids of the Bluegrass State, Morgan and his men set out from Sparta, Tennessee, and made their way into Kentucky. His attack would go into Indiana and end in Ohio, and it cost the Union hundreds of thousands of dollars in both military and civilian property damages, <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/morgans-great-raid-1863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the American Battlefield Trust. 
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McNutt told Live Science that because the coins discovered in the hoard were federal currency, it would “be wise to conceal from a Confederate raiding party.&#8221; He also said during this time period, many Americans &#8220;became experienced with hiding goods and valuables.”
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> broke down a “fascinating” new study that showed that religious belief tended to be associated with key indicators of a successful life, including education level and marital status.
Shapiro made the comments on his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1755-they-want-you-fat-stupid-and-lazy-member-exclusive-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tuesday podcast</a> in reference to an article put out by Ryan Burge, a political scientist who studies religion in American public life. Burge wrote in a <a href="https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/religion-has-become-a-luxury-good" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent Substack article</a> that religion in the U.S. had become an “enclave” for those who have college degrees, stable marriages and children, and middle-class income.
“And this is sort of a fascinating phenomenon to look at. There are a bunch of charts that he puts up to show this. So, for example, he puts up a chart showing that as education increases, religious practice or religious belief also increases to a certain extent, which is sort of the reverse of what we&#8217;ve been told,” Shapiro said.
The Daily Wire co-founder went on to discuss how this fact was the opposite of how the media typically portrayed religious Americans.
“What the media tells you is that it&#8217;s the most educated among us who never go to church, and it&#8217;s the least educated among us who always go to church. And that actually is not true. When you identify that marital status, what you find is that married people go to religious services weekly at a far higher rate than people of any other marital status,” he said.
In his article, Burge said that the key takeaway from the numbers would be that churches should be more welcoming to those who do not have as successful lives. Shapiro said that there was an inverse way to read the data as well.
“But there&#8217;s a way to read this in reverse, and that is that the rules that the elite of our society, marital elite, the parental elite, the income elite, the educationally [elite] have applied to themselves, are very different than the rules they&#8217;ve promulgated to the rest of society. And you see this very clearly in the social science data,” Shapiro said, referencing Charles Murray&#8217;s landmark book &#8220;Coming Apart.&#8221;
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He added that the media was pushing a narrative of success that was the opposite of reality, saying that this message was harmful to society at large.
“Now, if you look at the media or if you look at the way the government treats this, it&#8217;s precisely the opposite. They pretend that the people who are most likely to be successful in our society are single female Berkeley graduates with no children who hate God and hate the church. Those are the people who are most likely to be successful if you watch TV,” Shapiro said.

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Ben Shapiro Breaks Down ‘Fascinating’ Study On State Of Religion In U.S.

Ben Shapiro Breaks Down 'Fascinating' Study On State Of Religion In U.S.

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The effort to rescue the passengers on the Titan, the submersible whose debris was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, likely cost millions of dollars — and OceanGate Expeditions, the company responsible for the expedition, likely will not pay for it.
Over the four days the rescue effort was conducted, airplanes, boats, and submersibles were utilized in the attempt, including Canadian P-3 Orion, P-8 Poseidon, and CP-140 Aurora aircraft as well as their vessels Horizon Arctic and Glace Bay. The French ship L&#8217;Atalante joined in the effort, as <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/22/cost-of-us-coast-guard-search-for-titanic-sub/70342718007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did</a> three C-130 aircraft and three C-17 transport planes from the U.S. military.
Chris Boyer, the executive director of the National Association for Search and Rescue, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/us/titanic-submersible-search-rescue-costs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the rescue mission would “probably cost millions.”
“It’s no different than if a private citizen goes out and his boat sinks,” retired Admiral Paul Zukunft, who led the U.S. Coast Guard from 2014-2018, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/21/titanic-sub-coast-guard-search/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “We go out and recover him. We don’t stick them with the bill after the fact.”
“The Coast Guard’s default,” he added, “is we will always launch for safety of life at sea — and always holding out hope that they do rise to the surface, we launch a rescue swimmer, and they’re all recovered and live to see the next day.”
The U.S. Navy also sent a winch system named the Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System (FADOSS) to the area of the sunken submersible; it is capable of retrieving objects as deep as 20,000 feet, but the system had to be welded onto a boat, which could take 24 hours.
In the end, the extra time needed may not have mattered, as reports on Thursday indicated that the passengers may have died early in the expedition when the submersible imploded, killing them instantaneously.
On Thursday, the United States Coast Guard <a href="https://twitter.com/USCGNortheast/status/1671907901542211584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1671907901542211584%7Ctwgr%5Ecbfebb9adb1227d0cfd8b029851173bec1af7999%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D574887action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that a remote-controlled vehicle deployed by the Horizon Arctic had found debris from the Titan. “A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic,” USGC Northeast said in a statement. “Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.”
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“A debris field implies a break-up of the submersible &#8230; that really sort of indicates what is the worst-case scenario, which is a catastrophic failure and generally that&#8217;s an implosion,” marine scientist and rescue expert David Mearns <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Sky News.
“The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate — literally in milliseconds — and the men wouldn&#8217;t have known what was happening,” Mearns added.
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Titanic tourist submersible disappear on an expedition to explore the famed shipwreck

Titanic Sub Rescue Effort Cost Millions — And OceanGate Likely Won’t Be Paying For It

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The number of Americans who identify as socially conservative has reached the highest level since 2012, according to a Gallup poll <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/506765/social-conservatism-highest-decade.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> last week.
The numbers are part of Gallup’s Values and Beliefs survey, which was conducted May 1-24 with a random sample of 1,011 respondents. It found that 38% of Americans identify as “very conservative” or “conservative” — up from 33% in 2022, 30% in 2021, and tied with 2012 numbers. This comes as the number of Americans who identify as “very liberal” or “liberal” dropped to 29% from 34% in 2022.
“For most of the past eight years, Americans were about as likely to say they were liberal as conservative on social issues,” Gallup senior editor Jeffrey Jones said. “This year, there is a more obvious conservative advantage. The shift is mostly due to increasing social conservatism among Republicans, at a time when social issues such as transgender rights, abortion and other hot-button concerns are prominent in the national public debate.”
Social conservatism for Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 had a 6% increase from 2021, while those aged 30-49 saw a 13% increase and those aged 50-64 saw an 11% increase. Americans over the age of 65 were the only age group that saw a decrease, dropping to 42% from 43% in 2021.
Similarly, the number of Americans who identify as economically conservative has reached 44%, up from 40% in 2022 and more than double the 21% of Americans who identify as “very liberal” or “liberal” economically, according to the poll. Seventy-nine percent of Republicans identified as “very conservative” or “conservative” when it comes to the economy, while 36% of independents and 16% of Democrats felt the same.
The Values and Beliefs survey also <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that the majority of Americans don’t believe transgender-identifying athletes should be able to compete against those of the opposite sex. According to the survey, 69% of Americans believe athletes should only be allowed to play on teams that conform to their actual gender, up from 62% in 2021.
Additionally, most Americans, 55%,  believe it’s “morally wrong” to change genders, compared to 43% who think it’s “morally acceptable.” The breakdown by political party on the issue shows that 84% of Republicans, 50% of Independents, and 29% of Democrats believe it’s morally wrong.
These numbers come as conservatives have been touting major wins in recent weeks regarding boycotts of various brands that have promoted transgender ideology, including Bud Light and Target. In late May, Target’s stock market value had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/targets-stock-market-value-takes-6-billion-hit-since-backlash-over-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> a $6 billion hit since it had received backlash for its “Pride” collection, while sales of Bud Light <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-continue-to-plummet-may-soon-lose-status-as-number-one-beer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a> to fall since it partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman.
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“Greater social conservatism may be fostering an environment more favorable to passing conservative-leaning social legislation, especially in Republican-dominated states,” Jones said.

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As early as grade school, American children, especially from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds, are being told they should pursue social activism or even political revolution in order to make the country a better place.
But Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of Job Creators Network and the son of Mexican immigrants, argues that private enterprise would be a more effective way to achieve positive social change.
“If you want to make America a better place for everyone, especially minorities, forget social activism,” Ortiz said. “Instead, start a business.”
Ortiz notes that unlike activists and politicians, entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunities, not only for themselves, but for the people around them. The approximately 44 million small businesses in the United States provide roughly ⅔ of all new jobs.
Ortiz also notes that, relative to their share of the American population, “minorities start businesses more often than their white counterparts.”
According to the Kaufman Foundation, 360 out of 100,000 Americans will start a business in any given month, but among Hispanics, 540 per 100,000 will do so, and that disproportionate likelihood of starting a business has had rapid economic impacts.
“The ratio of household wealth between whites and Hispanics went from 8:1 to 5:1 between 2013 and 2019 as Hispanics became entrepreneurial,” Ortiz said. “There are 10 million minority-owned small businesses in America, generating $2 trillion of annual wealth and employing 10 million people.”
Ortiz cites the example of the Guthrie brothers, co-owners of Detroit Chassis, which assembles frames for motorhomes and trucks. The Guthries grew the company from a small workshop into a major manufacturer that brings in more than $100 million every year and employs more than 150 people, most of whom, like the Guthrie brothers, are black.
Ortiz argues that the American system is not rigged, and that people of all racial backgrounds can and will succeed if given the opportunity to do so. However, he argues that a large, redistributive state will cause the opposite of its desired effect by favoring large and well established firms over new businesses, limiting economic mobility.
“Small businesses, because they are small, are much more vulnerable to bad government policies.”
Minimum wages, inflation, rising energy costs, and many other hardships brought on by government policy disproportionately cut into the slim profit margins of small, local firms. Without profits, small businesses cannot develop new products, or hire new workers — if they start taking on losses, they may not even be able to operate.
“To lift up minorities and close the racial and ethnic wealth gap,” Ortiz says, “we should look to the millions of economic pioneers, many of them minority entrepreneurs, who are risking everything to make their lives, and our lives, better every day.”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> was named the second richest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/money">self-made</a> woman in music on Thursday, but she’s nowhere near overtaking the person in first place.
The 33-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">pop singer</a> has an estimated net worth of $740 million, according to a report from <a href="https://www.forbes.com/self-made-women/?sh=57f6a7586d96">Forbes</a> published June 1. This sum helped her beat out runners-up in the music category, including Madonna ($580 million net worth) and Beyoncé ($540 million net worth).
Swift is also the 34th richest woman on the list overall. Diane Hendricks of ABC Supply, the largest wholesale distributor of roofing materials in the U.S., currently occupies the top spot with a net worth of $15 billion.
Swift is currently performing across the United States on her Eras Tour, which helped inflate her massive net worth. Tickets sold out quickly during presale and crashed the Ticketmaster website. Per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/taylor-swift-net-worth-2023-eras-tour-could-make-her-a-billionaire">CBS News</a>, “Eras” could become the highest-grossing concert tour of all time and could increase Swift&#8217;s income by about $500 million.
But crossing the billion-dollar threshold won’t even be enough for Swift to secure the top spot. That title belongs to Rihanna, who currently has an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion.
Rihanna’s wealth comes from a combination of pop music and her extremely successful Fenty Beauty cosmetics company. The 35-year-old singer is the 20th richest self-made woman overall, according to Forbes. 
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Rihanna, who is expecting her second baby with rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky and recently showed off a $600,000 toe ring, is a popular recording artist by any measure. But Swift’s fans have a reputation for going the extra mile to show their devotion.
For example, concertgoers have been bragging on TikTok about wearing adult diapers to Swift’s shows so they don’t risk missing any of her songs while waiting in line for the restroom, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-fans-brag-about-wearing-adult-diapers-to-her-shows-not-missing-a-minute-of-it">reported</a>. Others claim they’ve experienced “amnesia” after the concert because they were so thrilled to finally see the singer perform.
“I went to the Arlington show a few weeks back and I honestly cannot remember most of the concert,” one fan posted on Reddit.  “I know I was there, but it feels like it was a dream,” another said.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Yulia Hicks</a>, a child who was reportedly denied a kidney transplant by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">Duke Children’s Hospital</a> last year, underwent a successful, life-saving kidney transplant at ECUHealth Medical Center on Thursday.
The North Carolina-based hospital stepped up to help Yulia, who has a genetic kidney disorder that requires a transplant, after her family said last year that Duke was refusing to put the teen on its kidney wait-list because she is unvaccinated against COVID. Notably, the family says Yulia had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-study-natural-immunity-beats-vax-against-delta-variant">already recovered from the virus</a>, but such information was unimportant to Duke Children’s Hospital.
Yulia was sent back for surgery at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening, and is currently recovering in the pediatric ICU, Yulia’s mother Chrissy Hicks told The Daily Wire in a phone interview on Friday. The teen&#8217;s surgery went extremely well and relatively quickly. Yulia is expected to leave the hospital on Monday or Tuesday.
&#8220;We found out Friday that we were gonna have surgery this week, and that was just, like, overwhelming because the blessings are just &#8212; it&#8217;s so overwhelming that everything worked out,&#8221; Chrissy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;You know, we had hoped that this would all happen, but then for it to actually happen &#8212; you&#8217;re like, oh my gosh, it really worked, you know?&#8221;
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Yulia&#8217;s donor is a man from Kentucky, who has decided to remain anonymous. The family was told his initials are J.J.
&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for the media giving us attention, we would&#8217;ve never found her donor, because he came forward because he saw it in [online],&#8221; Chrissy said. &#8220;He wanted to just test and see if he was a match. We still don&#8217;t know his name, we just know he is from Kentucky and we know his initials are J.J., so he&#8217;s gonna forever be J.J. to us.&#8221;
Chrissy said around 40 people came forward looking to test if they were a match in the wake of conservative media bringing attention to Yulia&#8217;s case.
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The Hicks family asked for prayers for J.J. in an update posted to a <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/kidneyforyulia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GiveSendGo</a> account for the family. &#8220;Please pray for his recovery. He is a hero,&#8221; it reads.
Chrissy told The Daily Wire that her family is working to get Yulia’s Law passed in North Carolina. The law would bar hospitals from denying people transplants based on their COVID vaccination status. Chrissy would like to see the law go national.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just about medical freedom is what it really comes down to,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s not just about Yulia. Through this whole thing, we&#8217;ve had about 10 or 15 people contact us privately and we&#8217;ve been able to send them to hospitals that we know will take them without the vaccine. So it is not just about Yulia; it&#8217;s helping other people already and we&#8217;re hoping we can expand that even more.&#8221;
The family is also pursuing a lawsuit against Duke over the hospital allegedly denying Yulia a place on the transplant list over her COVID vaccination status.
&#8220;We are also still raising money for legal fees for our lawsuit against Duke,&#8221; the GiveSendGo account says. &#8220;What they did to our daughter was unconscionable.&#8221;
Chrissy praised the team at ECUHealth for their care and professionalism.
&#8220;We want to thank the entire team at ECUHealth for everything, especially Dr. Leeser, Dr. Romine, Cynthia Stone, and Allyson Ayers.&#8221; the crowdfunding page reads. &#8220;They are the most caring and professional team that we have encountered on this journey.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duke-university-hospital-denied-14-year-old-girl-kidney-transplant-over-covid-vaccine-family-says">The Daily Wire</a> reported last year that a phone call, the recording of which was <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/duke-university-surgeons-are-refusing">obtained</a> by journalist Alex Berenson, reportedly revealed a Duke health official telling the Hicks family that Yulia must get vaccinated against COVID before she could become a candidate for the kidney transplant.
“I can’t require you to do anything. I can recommend these things, but if you don’t follow our recommendations, then Yulia can’t be a transplant candidate here,” the Duke Health kidney specialist reportedly said.
Throughout her interview with The Daily Wire, Chrissy repeatedly gushed over everyone who&#8217;s supported and prayed for Yulia.
&#8220;Thank you,&#8221; Chrissy said. &#8220;Just, thank you. We can never &#8212; &#8216;thank you&#8217; will never be enough. Please keep praying for Yulia&#8217;s recovery and for this angel who saved her, J.J.&#8221;
Chrissy extended an invitation for J.J. to reach out to the family if he ever wanted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-unvaccinated-girl-denied-kidney-transplant-by-duke-shares-huge-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mother Of Unvaccinated Girl Denied Kidney Transplant By Duke Says Daughter Has Secured Kidney</a>

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