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4 Things to Know About Republican Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s First Black Attorney General
When he takes office on Dec. 10, Daniel Cameron will make history as Kentucky’s first-ever African American attorney general and its first Republican to hold the office since 1948. Winning 57.8% of the vote on Nov. 5, Cameron trounced his opponent, former Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo, who was seeking a return to the office… -
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The Green New Deal Isn’t Just Expensive. It’s Also Bad Environmental Policy.
We’re not hearing much about the Green New Deal these days, but it’s still a priority for some candidates, as anyone who’s attended a recent Bernie Sanders rally can attest. Criticism of the Green New Deal tends to center on cost and rightly so. It would be extremely expensive. Researchers estimate it would take more… -
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US Government Should Call for Release of This Uighur Academic
Tashpolat Tiyip, a distinguished Uighur scholar of geography, may face imminent death unless the U.S. government jumps in. Vanished in 2017 after he was detained on his way to a conference in Germany, Tiyip was reportedly given a secret trial and sentenced in September 2017 to a suspended death sentence, along with five other members… -
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Backed by Soros Cash, Radical District Attorneys Take Control in DC Suburbs
Radical social justice activists will serve as the top prosecutors for three major Washington, D.C., suburbs—including the two wealthiest counties in the U.S.—after George Soros’ political action committee poured $2.1 million into ordinarily sleepy local races. In Virginia’s Fairfax and Arlington counties, the “reformer” attorneys ran on platforms far to the left of the Democratic incumbents, beating… -
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Disney Again Faces Up to Its Racist Past
Disney has come a long way. Like most American girls, we grew up on Disney princesses. In 2009, when the animated feature “The Princess and the Frog” told the story of Tiana, Disney’s first black princess, we joined other black women across the globe in saying, “It’s about time.” This week, Disney once again is… -
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Pop Star Spars With Salvation Army, Demands Donation to LGBT Group
It’s two weeks until Thanksgiving, but the NFL’s halftime singer is already calling time out. Ellie Goulding, the musician who was scheduled to perform at the turkey day game, is threatening to pull out of the show if the Cowboys’ spotlighted charity—the Salvation Army—doesn’t fold on its Christian beliefs. Either give a donation to an… -
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The Judiciary Loses When Judges Get Political
Politics is like mud wrestling. No one comes out clean. And as recent comments by Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia show, that holds especially true for judges. Friedman jumped into the political mud pit on Wednesday to wrestle President Donald Trump, saying that Trump’s criticism of… -
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Obama Tried to Discriminate Against Conservative Faith Groups. Trump Is Reversing That.
Several faith-based adoption agencies have been tangled in litigation over allegedly “discriminating” against prospective parents. Thankfully, a new Trump administration rule could alleviate some of their legal battles, protect religious liberty, and help kids in need of adoption. On Nov. 1, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would reverse… -
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This Web Designer Shouldn’t Have to Wait to Be Free to Create
They say anything worth having is also worth waiting for. We should know. We waited over three years for the Arizona Supreme Court to rule that the city of Phoenix cannot use fines and jail time to force us to create custom artwork that violates our beliefs. Issued in mid-September, that court decision was a… -
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A Gen X Liberal’s Take on the New Woke Left
“I consider myself a liberal. I still consider myself a feminist,” says writer Meghan Daum. But the past few years have left her shaken. “I did not feel that the new left was necessarily representing my values all the time. There was a sort of purity-policing that interestingly we used to associate with the right.”… -
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What Happened to California Republicans?
From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California’s 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans. In 1994, then-Gov…. -
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6 Key Moments From the First Day of Public Impeachment Hearings
Who’s in charge of the Trump administration’s policy on Ukraine and the president’s focus on the business dealings there of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son were main topics of two veteran foreign service officers’ testimony Wednesday before the House committee pursuing impeachment. Offering sworn testimony as lead-off witnesses in House Democrats’ first public hearings on… -
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Virginia’s Elections Should Serve as Wake-up Call to Monochromatic GOP
Virginia Republicans got their heads handed to them on a silver platter in legislative elections Nov. 5. Democrats now have a majority in the state General Assembly for the first time since 1995, and they also hold the governorship. Virginia used to be a solid red state for Republicans. Now, the Old Dominion is the proverbial canary… -
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Why I Resigned in Protest When a Conservative Professor Was Punished
In 2018, I resigned as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and an overseer of its law school to protest the shameful treatment of law professor Amy Wax. Her sin, in the eyes of her detractors, was to question the wisdom of racial preference policies that brought to the law school, in her… -
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What’s Driving Unusually High Voter Turnout
American voters are motivated by a fever pitch. That’s the message from last week’s elections. The headlines were the Democratic sweep of the state legislature in Virginia that put the entire state government under Democrat control for the first time in 25 years and the defeat of incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in Kentucky. An… -
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Are Conservative Immigration Restrictionists Racist?
This week, The Atlantic released its newest issue, provocatively titled “How to Stop a Civil War.” Leading its collection of essays is a fascinating piece by Yoni Appelbaum. In it, Appelbaum posits that at the crux of America’s vitriolic politics lies demographic change: The United States is undergoing a transition perhaps no rich and stable… -
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Sorry, Hillary: Margaret Thatcher Was Indeed a ‘Gutsy Woman’
When all you have is a social justice hammer, everything looks like an identity politics nail. At least, that’s what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made clear this week. While promoting her new book Tuesday, “The Book of Gutsy Women,” co-authored with her daughter Chelsea Clinton, the two-time presidential candidate explained why they chose… -
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College Newspaper That Apologized for Covering News Won’t Print Another Point of View
A student newspaper that apologized to readers for “retraumatizing” them through its coverage of a disrupted campus appearance by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions also declined to publish a different take on the incident in a letter from a College Republicans chapter. Dominic Bayer, vice president of the College Republicans chapter at Northwestern University in Evanston,… -
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How ‘Medicare for All’ Would Make Your Health Care Worse, Not Better
Health care costs are too high. Too many Americans don’t have the option to see the doctors they want to. But the solution isn’t “Medicare for All.” Watch the video above to find out more. -
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Army Modernization Is Better Late Than Never
The U.S. Army is the world’s premier land force. Its primary role is to defeat enemy forces through conventional warfare, but it can perform an ever-widening range of functions. But these additional capabilities require steady investment and recruitment to be effective. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army engaged in thousands of operations and had to…