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opinion
A Mistake Imperils the Privacy of Parents Who Back School Choice
Christy Cook hasn’t been singled out or harassed for the choices she makes for her son’s education. She’d like to keep it that way. Yet in an astounding administrative error, Arizona’s Department of Education put Cook’s family and thousands of others at risk by disclosing their personally identifiable information to a special interest group opposed… -
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Why Pelosi’s Infrastructure Plan Is the Wrong Way Forward
House Democrats on Wednesday revealed their framework for infrastructure legislation this year, a package titled “Moving Forward.” The same day, the powerful House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on transportation-related revenues. This was not a coincidence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced two weeks ago that there would be a flurry of infrastructure-related activity…. -
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Trump’s Peace Plan for Palestine Is Doomed to Fail
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat met at Camp David where Barak offered almost all of what Arafat asked for in exchange for making peace with the Jewish state. Arafat rejected the offer. The reason was and remains that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t… -
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Attorney General Warns of ‘Militant Secular Effort’ to Drive Out Religion
Attorney General William Barr says that religious Americans aren't imposing their beliefs on others, but that “militant secularists” are imposing their values on people of faith. Discussing religious freedom in the U.S. during an interview Tuesday on SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel, Barr warned that religion is being “driven out of the marketplace of ideas,” and that “there’s an organized,… -
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Patriots’ Ben Watson: ‘Men Have to Stand Beside Women We Impregnate’
New England Patriots tight end Ben Watson, joining pro-life activists at the March for Life, said that “men have to stand beside the women we impregnate.” Watson discussed his upcoming documentary “Divided Hearts of America” in an exclusive interview Friday with The Daily Caller News Foundation at the 47th annual pro-life rally and march in… -
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Problematic Women: Trump, the Impeachment Trial, and Teen Vogue (Again)
Are you having trouble following everything going on with the Senate impeachment trial? You’re not alone. Elizabeth Slattery, legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to break down the proceedings at a 101 level. We also discuss President Trump’s speech at the March for Life and the Trump administration’s other big pro-life announcements…. -
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‘Cowed Into Silence’: Dave Rubin Warns of Cancel Culture, Mob Mentality
Dave Rubin, who hosts “The Rubin Report” talk show, joins the podcast to discuss the differences between political liberalism and classical liberalism, his recent encounter with Antifa, and the “cancel culture” phenomenon. Read the lightly edited interview below or listen to the podcast: We also cover these stories: The Senate impeachment trial continues, with senators… -
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6 Scenes From Day 8 of Trump Impeachment Trial
Wednesday was question-and-answer day in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and it included a thought exercise in which Barack Obama asks Russia to investigate election rival Mitt Romney. Senators acting as jurors, and in some way judges, submitted questions in writing to Chief Justice John Roberts. He then read them out loud… -
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2 Gay Students Are Suing a Seminary. Here’s Why It Matters.
A man and a woman, both in same-sex marriages, have sued Fuller Theological Seminary for discrimination after it expelled them over their same-sex marriages. Fuller, located in Pasadena, California, is the nation’s largest interdenominational seminary. The lawsuit represents a move that Christian organizations have anticipated in light of same-sex marriage. The lawsuit could become a… -
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Warrants to Spy on Trump Campaign Lacked Probable Cause, DOJ Admits
Two of the FBI’s four applications for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on a Trump campaign adviser lacked probable cause and should not have been issued in the first place. That’s the stunning admission by the Justice Department, contained in a recent court filing with the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court… -
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Ukrainians Mark a Bittersweet Beginning to 2020
KYIV, Ukraine—The holidays are over and the winter doldrums have begun. For Ukrainians, the New Year has gotten off to a particularly bittersweet start, alternating between moments of monumental hope and tragedy. The year began on an optimistic note. The closing days of 2019 saw a landmark prisoner exchange between Ukrainian and Russian forces, marking… -
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Amid Impeachment Trial, Trump Signs Major Trade Deal With Canada, Mexico
President Donald Trump has signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade deal replacing the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, keeping a key campaign promise on trade that strayed somewhat from Republican tradition. “This is something we really put our heart into,” Trump said at the bill-signing ceremony Wednesday on the South Lawn outside the White… -
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Why Trump Says Give Middle East Peace a Chance
It’s called the Holy Land, a land of miracles. It’s where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. And conventional wisdom holds that President Donald Trump has about as good a chance of replicating that feat as he does of reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The administration’s latest peace plan has already been flat out rejected by the… -
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When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing
This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, “#NeverAgain.” Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn’t a relic of the past but a… -
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School Choice Lets Parents Pick Safer Schools
Parents look for many things in a school: strong academics, engaging extracurricular activities, and quality teachers who offer one-on-one help to their kids. But increasingly, parents are adding safety to their list: They want a school where their children will feel safe. Safety is a growing concern for parents. A 2017 Gallup survey found that… -
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The Cost of Sacrificing Public, Private Health Insurance for ‘Medicare for All’
A majority of House Democrats are co-sponsoring legislation (HR 1384) to outlaw virtually all Americans’ public and private health insurance and replace their coverage with a new government plan. In the Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill (S 1129) would accomplish the same objective. Americans must fully grasp the necessary trade-offs—the sacrifices—they would… -
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5 Takeaways From the Latest Budget Projections
The Congressional Budget Office has released its budget and economic projections for fiscal years 2020-2030. The latest report confirms what the Congressional Budget Office has been telling lawmakers for years: The nation is hurtling toward a spending-driven debt crisis. Without major reforms to mandatory spending programs, it is not a question of if, but when,… -
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How the House’s Handling of Impeachment Hurts the American People
Whether the American people yet realize it or not, the House’s handling of the impeachment of President Donald Trump has inflicted serious damage on America’s constitutional system of government and threatened the very safety of our nation. The partisan nature of this particular impeachment will end up weakening not just Trump, but the office of… -
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Clarence Thomas, in His Own Words, Coming to a Theater Near You
It has been said that the very moment a man finds himself, he finds God. That captures the story of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a man of deep faith whose youthful struggles with racism caused that faith to be shaken, but who later returned to it more deeply and more resolutely because of his… -
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Presidents Have the Authority—and Every Right—to Remove Ambassadors
Multiple news outlets last week reported on a 2018 video recording in which two men with Ukrainian connections, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, apparently inform President Donald Trump that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was undermining his policy and asserting that he soon would be impeached. In response, Trump reportedly ordered: “Get rid…