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opinion
Game of Drones: Coming to a Military Theater Near You
In light of the recent attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities and oil fields, more people are paying attention to the use of armed drones, especially in the Middle East. While the investigation into the strike at Abqaiq and Khurais continues, one thing is now clear: The threat of armed drones is not only an… -
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The Left to America’s Children: Your Past Is Terrible, and Your Future Is Terrible
A rule of life is that everything the left touches it ruins: art, music, Christianity, Judaism, race relations, male-female relations, universities, high schools, elementary schools, late-night comedy, sports, liberty, journalism, the Boy Scouts, national economies, language, and everything else it influences. The left, not liberalism. (I have written a column and done a PragerU video… -
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US Blacklists Chinese Firms for Role in Abuse of Muslim Minorities
The U.S. Commerce Department added 28 Chinese firms to a trade blacklist Monday for being implicated in the abuse of Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. The decision to blacklist 20 Chinese public security businesses and eight other companies, including a video surveillance firm called Hikvision, will effectively prevent entities from purchasing U.S. products by imposing… -
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Ocasio-Cortez Says US Needs ‘a Real Conversation’ About Abolishing Prisons
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted “prison abolition” in a pair of tweets Monday morning. Ocasio-Cortez called for “a real conversation about decarceration [and] prison abolition in this country,” adding: “A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.” “Prison abolition” is a radical left-wing movement to abolish prisons… -
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Elite American Institutions Keep Bowing to Communist China … Over and Over Again
America’s elite institutions are catering to communist China. The NBA provided the latest example Sunday night, when league commissioner Adam Silver apologized for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Rockets star James Harden followed suit and apologized to China for Morey’s tweets. The New York Nets’ new billionaire owner, Joseph… -
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Harvard Says It Uses Racial Discrimination to Sculpt a ‘Diverse’ Class. This Is a Dangerous Path.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard University does not illegally discriminate against Asian Americans. The keyword is “illegally.” Harvard does discriminate against Asian Americans in its college admissions process. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs concedes that Harvard follows a “racially conscious” admissions system that gives a plus to black and Hispanic applicants… -
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Why Europe Refuses to Take Back Captured ISIS Fighters
When the caliphate of the Islamic State collapsed, its fighters scattered. Many ISIS terrorists ended up in camps being run by Syrian Kurds in northern Syria. Among the number are about 2,000 Europeans, and what exactly to do about that is the biggest source of disagreement that exists between the U.S. and Europe on counterterrorism policy today…. -
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Podcast: What to Expect in the New Supreme Court Term
Heritage Foundation legal expert Elizabeth Slattery discusses what will happen in the 2019-2020 Supreme Court term, which began Monday. How big an impact will all the Brett Kavanaugh controversy have? What’s up with Clarence Thomas being out sick? And what are the blockbuster cases? Slattery breaks it down. Plus, we talk about the NBA’s decision… -
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What You Need to Know About the Transgender Case at the Supreme Court
This interview, which is lightly edited, originally aired on “Problematic Women.” Lauren Evans: Welcome back. Virginia and I are in the studio today with religious liberty superstar Emilie Kao. Emilie is an attorney and director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation and has spent the past… -
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The NBA’s Shameful Hypocrisy Over China
Perhaps Americans will find a way to unite as the reality of living in a world with powerful, authoritarian regimes takes hold in the 21st century. Daryl Morey, general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, tweeted out Sunday: “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” This simple statement of support for, well, democracy, was deemed… -
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The President Is Right: We Must Clean Up America’s Cities
The liberal media is once again taking off at breakneck pace to condemn President Donald Trump. The fake issue for their bogus outrage? Speaking the truth about how Los Angeles and San Francisco are harmed by their deterioration into squalor caused by rampant homelessness. As the mainstream media is much more interested in hyperbole than… -
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Rep. Adam Schiff, Trump’s Nemesis, Is 2-0 So Far on Impeachment
Rep. Adam Schiff, the House committee chairman who has taken the lead role in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, has one big thing going for him. The California Democrat is 2-0 on the impeachment battlefield so far, after leading a panel that secured House impeachments of two federal judges in 2009 and 2010,… -
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Remarks on Facial Recognition Tech ‘Racist,’ Detroit Police Chief Says
Detroit’s chief of police is calling out as “racist” and “insulting” a freshman congresswoman’s criticism of his department’s facial recognition system and the personnel who operate it. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said the Detroit Police Department should hire only black people to analyze photos of criminal suspects in the department’s facial recognition system. During a… -
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70th Anniversary of Communist China a Dark Day for Mankind
It’s one thing to engage in diplomacy. It’s another to praise evil. This past week, Donald Trump tweeted: “Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China!” For diplomatic reasons, it’s become customary for American presidents to praise and commend this depraved totalitarian regime. In a… -
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Actress Fired for Christian Views on Homosexuality
You’ve heard of seeing red. You’ve heard of feeling blue. And now you’re about to hear of a new state of mind brought to you by “The Color Purple”—resoluteness. That resoluteness was shown by a 25-year-old British actress, Oluwaseyi Omooba. Omooba was set to star in the stage musical based on the Alice Walker novel “The Color… -
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Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists
An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on my Twitter feed over the past several days that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Not to bury the lede: Yes, they are still as repugnantly brutal as their predecessors in St. Petersburg and Phnom Penh—but today they add ignorance and infantilism to the… -
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With Refurbishing of Grant Memorial, a National Treasure and a Reputation Are Restored
In 1877, three men were commonly regarded as the foremost heroes of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant. For their efforts, each of these three Americans since has been recognized with a place of honor on the National Mall. Yet over time, for various reasons, our appreciation of Grant—and the… -
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Justices Return for a Momentous Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court returns from its summer hiatus Monday to begin an election year term heavy on politically salient disputes. The high court’s docket for the coming months is a genuine gantlet of highly polarizing disputes that could make the relative comity of its previous term impossible to replicate. The justices will decide by June… -
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Teacher Fired Over Trans Pronouns Sues School
West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming is a soft-spoken man who was well loved by his students. He wasn’t looking for a fight. He was just looking to do his job. But when the school demanded that he use male pronouns for a biological girl student who had decided to identify as a… -
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Veteran Suicides Continue to Increase
As Monday marks the 18th anniversary of American troops invading Afghanistan, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs report shows that veteran suicides have been increasing over the past decade. U.S. combat operations ended in 2014 but around 14,000 troops still remain in the country, the Post Register reported. President Donald Trump called off discussions of…