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What Americans Have in Common With Conservatives Across the Globe
Are Americans alone in their fight against big government, extreme sex ed, and more? Or are other people across the world similarly fighting? In this episode of “The Bill Walton Show,” Matt and Mercedes Schlapp join Bill Walton to discuss. Former White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp grew up as the daughter of… -
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49 Conservative Leaders Urge Chick-Fil-A to ‘Reverse Course’ on Pro-Family Charities
Leaders of pro-family, pro-life, and other conservative organizations have sent a letter to Chick-fil-A asking the fast-food chicken company to reconsider its decision to no longer financially support the Salvation Army. “We are tremendously disappointed at your company’s complicity in defaming the mission and intent of the Salvation Army, one of America’s oldest and most… -
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Some British Lessons on ‘Single Payer’ Health Care
Congressional sponsors of “Medicare for All” single-payer legislation—bills abolishing virtually all existing public and private health insurance—routinely promise that all Americans will get equal access to higher quality care and enjoy superior medical outcomes. Performance, however, is the acid test of sound policy. While the U.S. “single payer” experience is limited to the Veterans Administration… -
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How Pentagon’s ‘Trusted Capital’ Program Can Secure Financing for Defense Industrial Base
The Department of Defense this month partnered with Texas A&M University to co-sponsor Drone Venture Day, the first event of the Pentagon’s new Trusted Capital Marketplace initiative. The Nov. 13 event brought American manufacturers of unmanned aircraft and counter-unmanned aircraft systems together with trusted capital providers, with the hope that the connections made might lead… -
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Let’s Be Thankful for Private Property
Families will argue this Thanksgiving. Such arguments have a long tradition. The Pilgrims had clashing ideas about how to organize their settlement in the New World. The resolution of that debate made the first Thanksgiving possible. The Pilgrims were religious, united by faith and a powerful desire to start anew, away from religious persecution in… -
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Males Don’t Belong in Women’s Sports—Even If They Don’t Always Win
Fair competition in women’s sports remains under attack as male athletes continue to join and compete on women’s teams and against women. Male athletes Cece (formerly Craig) Telfer and June (formerly Jonathan) Eastwood both have been competing in NCAA women’s sports for the past year. Both previously competed on their school’s men’s teams and were competitive… -
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Finding Common Ground With Liberals at Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving approaching, a common complaint I hear is that the mix of political views at holiday gatherings can create some tense moments. However, there’s no need to dread conflict during dinner. In fact, a conversation handled the right way may actually show your family that they have more in common than they think. The… -
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How World Vision’s ‘Chosen’ Initiative Is Revolutionizing Child Sponsorship
“Chosen” is the name of World Vision’s new child-sponsorship initiative—an effort poised to revolutionize the way the Western world thinks about sponsorship programs. Sponsorship of children abroad in poverty is not a new concept. TV infomercials filled with images of needy children in far-flung impoverished nations and photos on bulletin boards in church lobbies or… -
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Supreme Court to Hear Gun, Obamacare Cases
The Supreme Court will return Monday for oral arguments in what is shaping up to be a blockbuster term. During the high court’s two-week December sitting, the justices will hear arguments in some important cases, including ones regarding the Second Amendment and Obamacare. The justices already have heard arguments in a case involving the Trump… -
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America’s Future Depends on Thanksgiving
Are we seeing the last generation of Americans who will celebrate Thanksgiving? This may seem to be a laughable question. According to AAA, over 55 million Americans will be traveling for Thanksgiving 2019. Undoubtedly, many more will be celebrating the holiday at home. But when the city of Berkeley, California, replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous… -
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The Victims of Race-Focused Liberals Are Blacks
Former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said that racism in America is “foundational” and that people of color were under “mortal threat” from the “white supremacist in the White House.” Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that “systemic racism” will “be with us” no matter who is in the White House. Sen. Cory Booker called for… -
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David Limbaugh on New Far Left: Americans Must Resist ‘Tyrannical Bullying’
Identity politics and group mentality is driving the left today, says David Limbaugh, author of the new book, “Guilty By Reason of Insanity.” “You can’t watch an award show without these people obsessing on race, gender, sexual orientation,” Limbaugh says. “That’s all they care about. And that they even wrap that into their Marxist economic… -
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Obama Rejected Race-Based Politics. The Woke Left Demands It.
In November 2008, the American people elected the country’s first black president. I remember the night clearly—or as clearly as one can given the copious consumption of cabernet sauvignon that night. As I watched the returns at my small Manhattan apartment, Fox News’ Brit Hume called the presidential election for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of… -
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When the House First Tried to Impeach a President, It Failed
The president’s critics thought his presidency was illegitimate to begin with. His Cabinet members changed frequently. Mainly based on policy disagreements, members of Congress demanded his ouster. Some lawmakers were willing to toss out constitutional norms based on what they said was the president’s “ignorance of the interest and true policy of this Government, and… -
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Price Transparency Rule Will Help Patients Make Better Choices
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued one proposed and one finalized rule, both with the aim of providing patients with transparency in prices for health services. These two rules came as a result of an executive order signed in June by President Donald Trump directing the Department of Health and Human… -
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Paying for ‘Medicare for All’ Is a Pipe Dream
Single-payer health care has become a mainstream position and popular talking point for Democrats, who promise government-sponsored coverage for all Americans. But they’re often less talkative about the questionable availability of that coverage and the specific means of paying for this kind of health care. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has been clearer than others about… -
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Trump Acts to Curb Violence Against Native Americans, Reopen Cold Cases
More than 5,000 Native American women and children are reported missing each year, and Native American women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the average American is, according to the White House. These are some of the numbers that spurred the Trump administration to establish a task force Tuesday to tackle the… -
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How Trump’s Sunshine Rules Will Boost Transparency in Health Care Prices
President Donald Trump recently announced major administrative actions that would lift the veil on health prices for hospital procedures and services covered by health insurance. As Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, declared: “Today’s transparency announcement may be a more significant change to American health care markets than any other… -
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‘They Are Endangering the Communities’: New DHS Chief Rips Sanctuary Cities
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf lambasted sanctuary cities, touted progress on the wall, and confirmed on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday the U.S. will implement asylum agreements to remove illegal aliens. Wolf, who officially became the acting DHS secretary earlier in November, discussed a range of issues affecting his department. “I think sanctuary city policies… -
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Criticizing George Soros Is Not Anti-Semitic
The former senior director for European and Russian affairs for the Trump administration, Fiona Hill, testified last week in the House impeachment hearings. At one point, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., asked her: “Would you say that these different theories, these conspiracy theories that have been targeting you, spun in part by folks like Mr. Stone…