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DC Is Abolishing Columbus Day. Here’s the Truth About Columbus.
Editor’s note: On Tuesday, the D.C. City Council approved a measure to abolish the celebration of Columbus Day, set to take place Oct. 14. The holiday will be replaced by Indigenous People’s Day. The council fast-tracked the legislation by calling an emergency session. The District of Columbia was named after Christopher Columbus and bears numerous monuments… -
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After a Lull, Islamist Terrorism in Europe Returns With a Vengeance
There’s lots of talk in Washington about the Islamic State and the Trump administration’s Syria policy. That’s an important discussion to have, but it’s only one part of the counterterrorism discussion that America has to be engaged in. Consider events in Europe over the past week. On Oct. 3, an information technology specialist, Michael Harpon,… -
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The Left’s Real Impeachment Wish
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American public servant with characteristics all too rare today—integrity, intelligence, wisdom. Moynihan was a Democrat who would find a hard time being at home in today’s Democratic Party. He was a policy adviser in Democratic (Kennedy) and Republican (Nixon) administrations and went on to serve four terms as a Democratic… -
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Trump Moves to Increase Transparency in Government Regulations
Kevin Lunny and his family ran Drakes Bay Oyster Company for about 50 years on the Northern California coastline before the federal government shut down the business over regulations he wasn’t aware of. “We produced nearly half of all the sustainable oysters in Northern California,” Lunny said Wednesday at the White House, before President Donald… -
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Pump Price Over $4 a Gallon Gives Californians Gas Pains
A dollar won’t take you very far in California these days. Today, the state has an average gas price of $4.18 per gallon, more than $1.50 higher than the $2.64 per gallon average from every other state, according to the American Automobile Association. California has the highest gas taxes in the nation at an average… -
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Ukrainians Protest Leader’s Olive Branch to Russia
KYIV, Ukraine—Protesters flocked to Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan, by the thousands Sunday to oppose Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s gambit to make a major concession to Russia for the sake of restarting peace talks to end the war in the nation’s eastern Donbas region. Along an entrenched front line in the Donbas, after five and… -
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Prison Reform Advocates Call Mass Incarceration an ‘Epidemic’
African Americans still have a long way to go when it comes to fairer treatment by the criminal justice system, a New York congressman said at a recent gathering of black lawmakers. “The mass incarceration epidemic is something that has been with us now for almost 50 years,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said during a… -
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Edwin Meese Salutes Reagan in Accepting Presidential Medal of Freedom
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese, upon receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House, praised the many people who helped him throughout his life—notably a future president named Ronald Reagan. Meese was deputy district attorney for Alameda County, California, when Gov. Ronald Reagan hired the lawyer as his legal affairs secretary in 1967…. -
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Senator Seeks Update After Referring 4 Accusers to Justice Department for Kavanaugh Claims
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked the Department of Justice and FBI on Tuesday for an update on the criminal referrals he submitted against witnesses who made potentially false accusations of sexual misconduct against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee, when Grassley was chairman in 2018, asked the Justice Department to pursue criminal investigations of… -
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In Blistering Letter, White House Tells Democrats It Won’t Cooperate With ‘Illegitimate’ Impeachment Inquiry
The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In the letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of attempting to both overturn the results of the 2016 election and… -
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Is Encouraging Illegal Immigration Protected Speech? The Supreme Court Will Decide
The Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law that makes it a crime to “encourage or induce” someone to enter the country illegally violates the First Amendment. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law is unconstitutional in December 2018. The justices added the case to their docket Friday. “The provisions here are primarily… -
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani to Testify on Ukraine Concerns
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, has invited Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to testify before his committee amid House Democrats’ move to launch an impeachment inquiry into the president. Giuliani has been vocal about stories of corruption in Ukraine, sounding off on allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden influenced Ukraine's… -
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Arrests at Border Total Nearly 1M in Past Year, Border Chief Says
The acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection says that nearly 1 million “enforcement actions” took place on the southern border in the past fiscal year. At a White House briefing Tuesday, Mark Morgan revealed the latest border apprehension statistics and what the Trump administration is doing to control the immigration crisis. “CBP’s enforcement actions… -
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What You Need to Know About Trump’s Syria Move
Heritage Foundation foreign policy expert Jim Carafano weighs in on President Donald Trump’s decision to move troops around in Syria, after talking with the Turkish president. Carafano explains how this will affect the Kurds, whether it could boost ISIS, and why we’re in Syria in the first place. Read the lightly edited interview transcript, posted… -
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Idiotic Environmental Predictions
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would… -
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Pelosi Hasn’t Really Started the Impeachment Process
Does an impeachment inquiry require a vote of the full House of Representatives? President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., maintain that it does. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claims that it doesn’t. Pelosi is correct that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly require it. It simply gives the House the “sole Power of Impeachment.” But the gravity… -
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Elections Watchdog Seeks Answers in Michigan Voter Fraud Case
A Michigan municipal election official being charged with six felonies in the discarding of nearly 200 votes is not likely an indication of voting problems nationally, election experts say. But an election integrity watchdog still wants to get to the bottom of the matter. “Whether it changed the outcome is not really an issue when… -
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Protesters in Iraq Have Legitimate Grievances
Iraq has been convulsed for the last week by widespread popular protests against government corruption, high unemployment, and inadequate government services. The risk grows that escalating violence associated with the protests could bring down Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s weak coalition government. The protesters, mainly in Baghdad and the Shiite-dominated south, are largely young people denouncing… -
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Supreme Court Justices Ponder the Meaning of ‘Sex’
The Supreme Court, returning this week for the beginning of its 2019-2020 term, heard oral argument Tuesday in three cases asking it to decide whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity. At issue is the meaning of the word “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights… -
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The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump
What would you do if you were prosecuted and the prosecutors never named the alleged crime? Or if they kept changing the rules by which they were prosecuting you? How about if the prosecutorial team suggested you be arrested and held in solitary confinement before they even stated the charge? In fact, what if they…