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Supporting ‘Medicare for All’ Isn’t Pro-Life
Christian social teaching tells us to look after the needy and the impoverished, and this certainly includes matters of health and illness. Because of this, American conservatives, who are in large part Christian, often are criticized for opposing the specific policy prescriptions of the left such as single-payer health care. In particular, pro-life advocates are… -
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These Former Intelligence Chiefs Fit Perfectly Into Our Media Advocacy Culture
Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common. One, they ran the nation’s key intelligence and investigatory agencies under President Barack Obama. They were deeply involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax. And they participated… -
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Peloton ‘Scandal’ Shows How Mentally Unfit We’ve Become
We are fast approaching the end of 2019, and as we close the book on a turbulent decade, nothing summarizes the state of our culture and our unhealthy relationship with contrived outrage quite like the Peloton ad controversy and the wave of hysteria that has followed in its wake. Imagine if we could channel that… -
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Understanding Democrats’ March Toward Electoral Defeat
After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, becoming the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why?… -
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Staying Safe and Keeping the Season Bright
As much as we’d like to relax and just enjoy the holiday season—the shopping, the music, the tastes, and the scents—we unfortunately must not lose sight, even for a minute, of the threat posed by terrorism. On Black Friday—the traditional opening of the Christmas shopping season—the world witnessed its 58th terrorist stabbing attack in London,… -
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For Taxpayers, College Football Remains a Guilty Pleasure at Christmastime
With Christmastime comes college football’s bowl season, with games all day, nearly every day. Starting last Friday with Buffalo against Charlotte in the Bahamas (1,235 miles from Buffalo, 733 miles from Charlotte), college football graces the airwaves until Jan. 6. After two straight weeks of football, viewers will get a seven-day break until the national… -
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Clarence Thomas Tells His Story in a New Documentary
Who is Clarence Thomas? Every pundit has an opinion, but few actually know him. Now, we all have an opportunity to hear his story in his own voice. In a remarkable documentary by Michael and Gina Pack, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” the famously silent justice tells his life story. And… -
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Problematic Women: Sex, Feminism, and Socialism
From the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Palm Beach, Florida, “Problematic Women” dives into the history of feminism and the rise of socialism within the women’s movement. Hosts Lauren Evans and Virginia Allen explain how the women’s movement was hijacked by the sexual revolution. The right to vote, equal treatment in the workplace,… -
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The First Time a Bold New Yorker Got Impeached for Taking on the Swamp
This Manhattanite came to office with a big reform agenda, ready to toss out the old establishment and fight corruption. He asserted: “Political conventions must go.” And: “Disgraceful secret alliances between special privileges and crooked politics must cease.” But reforming an old, entrenched system had its price. The system pushed back with impeachment, prompting the… -
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Federal Spending Explodes at Nearly $300,000 Per Household Since 2010
Amid the drama surrounding impeachment, both parties came together on one area of shared support: spending enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars and adding to the $23.1 trillion national debt. Congress had little time to properly review fiscal 2020 spending bills, which weighed in at more than 2,000 pages of clunky text. The legislation contained a… -
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Tucker Carlson’s False and Misleading Claims About The Heritage Foundation
In a segment that aired Friday night, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson made several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation. For nearly 50 years, The Heritage Foundation has represented the interests of the American people based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values, and a strong… -
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Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats, Study Finds
A new analysis finds that immigration will dramatically reshape the Electoral College map in favor of the Democratic Party after completion of the 2020 census. Rising immigrant populations around the United States will result in several solidly Democratic states gaining more seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of solidly Republican states, the study by… -
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Schiff’s Subpoenas Reveal New Escalation of Partisan Warfare
When law enforcement officials break the law to get someone they think is bad, politicians and the media rail in high dudgeon—and rightly so. The police, however, aren’t the only ones who occasionally decide to “get the bad guy” no matter what it takes or what laws may stand in the way. Consider the recent… -
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Biological Male Files Lawsuit Demanding Entry Into Female Beauty Pageant
A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman is suing after being denied entry into a female beauty pageant in Oregon. Lawyers for Anita Green filed suit Tuesday against United States of America Pageants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, alleging the organization unlawfully discriminated against Green by limiting the… -
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How Beijing Controls Chinese Citizens Through Family, Education, and Speech
You may have read about China’s practice of foot-binding. It’s an ancient custom dating back to the supposedly pleasing aesthetic sense of the 10th century. To improve their marriage prospects, women would bind their feet with bandages from an early age to stunt the growth of them. The tradition was damaging to the development of… -
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House Votes Overwhelmingly to Pass US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed President Donald Trump's trade deal with Mexico and Canada on Thursday, just one day after it voted to impeach him. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which sets rules for moving products among the three countries, passed with a vote of 385-41. The Senate will be able to vote to ratify the… -
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Investigation of Trump-Russia Probe Looks at ‘Actors,’ Agencies Beyond FBI
Attorney General William Barr provided new details of a federal prosecutor's criminal investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe in an interview on Fox News Channel, saying the prosecutor is looking into the activities of federal agencies outside the FBI as well as those of “private actors.” “He’s not just looking at the FBI,”… -
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China Fires Shot Across Bow With New Aircraft Carrier
The People’s Republic of China this week officially became a producer of aircraft carriers. The Shandong entered service, introducing the first domestically produced aircraft carrier to the People’s Liberation Army Navy. It’s a stark reminder that this is a competitive world when it comes to pursuit of national interests. The U.S. has to keep up… -
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Surveillance Footage Outside Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Cell Goes Missing
Surveillance footage showing the outside of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the night he first tried to commit suicide is missing, prosecutors say. >>> Update: The missing footage actually was preserved and has been found, the New York Daily News reported Thursday night. Epstein, arrested in July, died in an apparent suicide while… -
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Pro-Life Policies Growing ‘Like a Steady Drumbeat,’ Abortion Analyst Says
Pro-life policies within the United States are growing “like a steady drumbeat,” according to an abortion analyst. State trend analyst for the Guttmacher Institute Elizabeth Nash spoke out about the increase in pro-life legislation across the United States in an interview with BuzzFeed News. The analyst, who works in Guttmacher’s Washington, D.C., office and has studied abortion legislation at the state…