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    SEC Chairman Says at NYSE That Top-down ‘Communism’ Is a Proven Failure
    As America turns 250 years old, it’s important to remember that freedom, not top-down communism, created our prosperity, Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday morning. The SEC chairman’s speech about “Revitalizing American Markets” comes a month after New York voters elected socialist Zohran…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Don’t Take Thanksgiving for Granted
    The nation will this week partake in a ritual unlike any other in the rest of the world. Americans of all persuasions, races, and creeds will gather with family around the table and give thanks, most of them to the Almighty, for the bounty they have received this year. It’s easy to take Thanksgiving for…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Fallacy at the Heart of Ken Burns’ ‘American Revolution’ Documentary
    In today’s Thanksgiving episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler take issue with director Ken Burns’ assertion in his “American Revolution” documentary series that the Founding Fathers based their ideas for democracy on the Iroquois Nations. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Thanksgiving: The Quintessential American Holiday
    Gratitude is an essential attribute of people who are happy and living purpose-filled lives. Sometimes success leads to gratitude, but it’s more accurate to say that gratitude breeds success. And ingratitude breeds failure. This is a common biblical theme, best epitomized in the Book of Exodus. Shortly after God (through Moses) freed the people of…
    Preston Brashers
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    Florida Becomes First State to Adopt Phoenix Declaration to Renew Education
    On Thursday, Florida became the first state in the union to adopt the Phoenix Declaration as its guiding vision for education. After a brief hearing, the Florida Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the principles of the declaration, which has seven planks: parental choice and responsibility, transparency and accountability, truth and goodness, cultural transmission,…
    Jason Bedrick
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    How AI Programming Threatens to Erase Reality
    Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” In today’s world, history is being rewritten by the coders, the censors, and the corporate overlords who believe they have the moral authority to decide what truth means. Artificial intelligence was sold to us as the dawn of a new age of freedom designed to…
    Bill Flaig
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    Guide to America’s Historic Landmarks—Without the Left-Wing Bias
    To help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, The Heritage Foundation is releasing an interactive map and guide to America’s historic sites that is designed to help families enjoy history together accurately and without the Left’s ideological lens.   “The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites: Rediscovering America’s Heritage” at historicsites.heritage.org “equips American families with the tools they need to enjoy the sites that mark some of the greatest episodes in…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    New Bill in Ohio Could Help Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Live On
    In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, an Ohio state representative has an idea for how Kirk’s legacy could live on for generations to come. State Rep. Gary Click, a Republican, has introduced the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act. According to the bill’s text, it will “permit teachers in public schools and state institutions of…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Three Fundamental Differences That Are Dividing Americans
    Americans don’t just disagree on policies. In three key areas, they disagree on the principles that lead to the creation of those policies. The first is truth. Some people believe that absolute truth exists—a shared reality outside of ourselves. We may not like the truth, but attempting to deny it will only cause confusion, frustration,…
    Victor Joecks
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    Columbus Day Honors Our Civilization … Which Is the Real Reason Critics Hate It
    Battles over Columbus Day aren’t really about Christopher Columbus at all—they’re about whether America should exist. “Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas—paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776,” President Donald Trump…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Trump’s Celebration of Columbus Day Shows Left Losing Culture Wars
    “We’re back. Columbus Day. We’re back, Italians. We love the Italians.” That was President Donald Trump on Thursday to his Cabinet as he signed a proclamation to honor Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day, to be celebrated on Monday. “Columbus, obviously, discovered the New World in 1492,” Trump said. “He was a great Italian explorer. He…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    NYC Mayor Seeks Protections for Columbus Statues
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams is moving to protect a pair of Christopher Columbus statues amid threats from mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, who has called for them to be toppled.  Adams, who steps down at the end of the year after choosing not to run for reelection, told the New York…
    Chris Wade
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    An Unexpected Line in the Sand
    There has been talk for millennia about the wheat and the tares and the eventual separation of the two that Jesus foretold. I don’t know if that separation is happening in the ultimate sense right now, but something is happening and it is significantly unsettling. I admit, I thought any major, society-wide division would be…
    Kimberly Ells
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    Coalition Backs Trump’s Efforts to Purge ‘Woke’ Smithsonian Exhibits
    A coalition of conservative organizations has written a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to combat the “the woke infestation” in the Smithsonian Institution museum network. “We write today in support of your efforts to reform the Smithsonian Institution,” reads a letter penned by Aiden Buzzetti, the president of The Bull Moose Project.  The…
    George Caldwell
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    Senator Says It’s ‘Extremely Troubling’ to Believe Rights Come From the Creator
    The U.S. Senate has wasted no time getting back to serving the American people after its six-week summer recess. With issues like the Sept. 30 deadline to have either a budget or a continuing resolution or risk a partial government shutdown on the agenda, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia reminded us of the twisted view…
    Joe Thomas
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    US Trade Rep Outlines Policy That Puts Middle Class First
    U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday declared the need for an economy that “emphasizes a large middle class that makes and grows, rather than a small elite that extracts, reallocates, and squanders.” “Ultimately, to support a conservative society as conservatives, it’s been drilled into us to always lament that politics is downstream from culture,…
    Jacob Adams
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    Sen. Schmitt at NatCon 5: What Is an American?
    The following are remarks as prepared by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sept. 2 at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. There’s a special significance to this conference this year. Donald Trump’s victory was not just a victory for his movement, but for the ideas of the people in this room. National conservatism is…
    Eric Schmitt
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    Father Condemns Loudoun County for Choosing ‘Ideology Over Common Sense’ in Punishing His Son
    ASHBURN, Va.—Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears condemned Loudoun County Public Schools for deciding to punish boys who complained about a girl using their locker room, and urged outraged parents to support her campaign for governor in the November election. “We’re talking about three boys, three young boys, who have been punished because they were ……
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Executive Power and the Common Good, From 4 Perspectives
    In a recent discussion that brought influential thinkers of the Right together for an unprecedented public debate, Curtis Yarvin, Christopher Caldwell, Patrick Deneen, and Chris Rufo tackled the conservative movement’s future in a panel convened by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and held at The Heritage Foundation. Moderated by Intercollegiate Studies Institute President Johnny Burtka, the…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Shows He Gets ‘Politics Is Downstream From Culture’
    President Donald Trump may be leaving office in January 2029, but he’s taking all the right steps to ensure his legacy lives much longer. His appearance at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, announcing the 2025 honorees was just more proof that Trump understands it’s not enough to focus on politics if he wants to leave…
    Katrina Trinko
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