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Democrat Governor Excludes Conservative News Service From Media List
When two reporters showed up at the Wisconsin governor’s office in February for a press briefing on the new administration’s proposed budget, staffers turned them away. Although the governor’s office didn’t formally invite the reporters, they were credentialed through the Wisconsin Legislature to cover government activities. They also emailed an RSVP to the governor’s staff. … -
opinion
The Unchanging Principles of Conservatism Defined
At The Heritage Foundation, we’re always thinking about ways to talk to new and nontraditional audiences about how conservative principles can create the greatest freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society for the American people. We realize that for these ideas to take hold, we have to counter the false narratives of left-leaning media outlets, educational institutions,… -
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Enforcing ‘Public Charge’ Rule in Immigration Is Common Sense
The latest claims against the Trump administration over its enforcement of the “public charge” provision in federal immigration law are nonsensical. There is nothing “racist” or “immoral” about this requirement at all. On Aug. 14, the Department of Homeland Security published its new rule on how it will determine if “an alien applying for admission… -
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Trump’s Deregulation Promise
President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done. But would he… -
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Former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Wins $3 Million in Wrongful-Firing Case
An Arizona jury has awarded a former Planned Parenthood clinic director $3 million after she was fired for blowing the whistle on unsafe medical practices at the clinics. “I hope my case is a lesson to other workers that shows them that the truth will prevail,” Mayra Rodriguez, a former clinic director for Planned Parenthood… -
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Space Command Will Help the US Retake the Lead in Space
The space race is very much on, and the United States needs to up its game. That was the message President Donald Trump conveyed in a series of speeches that began in March of 2018, and next week, his administration will take a major stride to do just that. The Defense Department on Thursday… -
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North Carolina Governor Vetoes Anti-Sanctuary Bill After Illegal Alien Charged With Rape
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have mandated local law enforcement officials in the state to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Cooper on Wednesday vetoed House Bill 370, titled “An Act to Require Compliance with Immigration Detainers and Administrative Warrants.” If the legislation had been signed into law, sheriffs and other… -
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Google’s Secretive Blacklists
I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist. Thank goodness the Big Tech giant hasn’t taken over the newspaper syndication business yet. Twenty years of column writing have allowed me to break… -
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Problematic Women: Eyeing Freedom in Hong Kong
On “Problematic Women,” we often talk about the widely misunderstood gender pay gap. But this week, we discuss another “gap”—the alleged beauty gap, and whether women are treated differently in the workplace based on their looks. We also discuss Planned Parenthood’s sky-is-falling rhetoric after the organization voluntarily removed itself from the Title X funding program,… -
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Dad Urges Parents to Share Kids’ Photos in Response to Alyssa Milano’s Abortion-Prompted ‘Great Joys’
A pastor, husband, and father of two is asking parents on social media to post photos of their kids in response to actress Alyssa Milano’s saying that her life would be missing “great joys” were it not for her two abortions. “Everyone should post a picture of their kids and use the hashtag #greatjoys,” Jarrid… -
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Defending America After 2020
Many people around the world will be watching and waiting to see how the next American election turns out, but one group doesn’t have that luxury: those in the Pentagon. They have a little less than two years to get ready to explain to the next administration, a new Congress, and their fellow Americans how… -
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Democratic Senator Faces Ethics Complaint After Warning Justices About Court-Packing
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has attracted an ethics complaint and vigorous criticism from conservatives after raising the prospect of court-packing in a new legal filing before the Supreme Court. Depending on one’s perspective, Whitehouse’s extraordinary brief is either a cogent indictment of the court’s seemingly partisan valence or particularly blunt strong-arming of the nation’s… -
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The New York Times Is Trying to Rewrite History to Fit Its Biases
Remember the controversy in 2012 when President Barack Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” In context, the president was trying to make the point that in addition to our own hard work, others contributed to whatever level of success we have attained. The president suggested… -
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‘We Are Facing One of the Biggest Authoritarian States’: A Hong Kong Politician Speaks Out
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong continue as China flexes its muscles and warns of an intervention. Today, we feature an exclusive interview with Alvin Yeung, a politician from Hong Kong who supports the protests and hopes to achieve reforms. Read the interview, posted below, or listen on the podcast: We also cover these stories: A… -
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Trump Weighs Designating Antifa as ‘Terrorist Organization’
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was considering designating masked Antifa militants as a terrorist organization because of the group’s violent actions across the country. “We’re looking at a lot of different things relative to Antifa. Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist organization,” Trump said of the mask-wearing group in response to a question at… -
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Trump Won’t Use Hong Kong Protests as ‘Leverage’ in China Trade Talks
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping has the ability to ensure that chaotic protests in Hong Kong are resolved in a “humane way” and that the situation in the Chinese territory won’t be a factor in ongoing trade talks between the two countries. Tens of thousands of freedom protesters in… -
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The Media’s Intersectional Embrace of Anti-Semitism
Imagine two sitting Republican congresspeople planned a trip to a foreign country in conjunction with a nongovernmental organization. Imagine that particular nongovernmental organization had a long history of Jew hatred: It had run a piece on its website quoting anti-Semitic myths about Jews imbibing Christian blood, republished a neo-Nazi article decrying the “Jew-controlled entertainment media,”… -
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Why This Court Got It Right on Religious Imagery
In a win for the First Amendment, a federal appellate court ruled earlier this month that the seal featuring a cross located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, does not violate the Constitution’s establishment clause and can stay put. In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled against the atheist group… -
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The Budget Is at a Crossroads. Which Path Will Congress Take?
Thanks to the latest massive budget deal passed by Congress, our nation’s fiscal situation is deteriorating even more quickly than before. That’s the main takeaway from the Congressional Budget Office’s updated economic projections for fiscal years 2019-2029, released on Wednesday. The latest estimates reiterate that the federal government continues to live beyond its means. The… -
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Israel Right to Shut Out the Hostile Voices of Tlaib and Omar
It perplexes me why anyone would question the perfectly logical move by Israel to deny Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., entry to the country. Who invites guests whose motive is to destroy their host? We certainly don’t do it in the USA. No one, elected official or not, is permitted entry into…