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A Year After the Supreme Court Rules Against Unions, What’s Changed
Pick a state, any state where rank-and-file public employees differ with the political agenda of their union leadership, and they can make a clean break from the union if they choose. That’s because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that nonunion government workers can’t be compelled to pay dues or other fees to support a union…. -
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Trump Campaign Consulted Justice Kennedy About Supreme Court Picks, Book Reveals
Lawyers associated with the Trump campaign consulted retired Justice Anthony Kennedy while compiling a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees during the 2016 presidential campaign, portions of a new book obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation reveal. Kennedy, who was then serving on the Supreme Court, served as a reference for several candidates the… -
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California Implements Extreme New Sex Ed Curriculum
The California Board of Education implemented progressive sex and gender education curriculum in public schools across the state, regardless, in some cases, of parental knowledge or consent. Progressive groups, including Planned Parenthood, collaborated on AB-329 in 2016 and the recently introduced Health Education Framework in May as highlighted by a video created by the conservative group Our Watch. Both these… -
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Senate Resolution Cautions Against Federal Bailout of Fiscally Irresponsible States
Most of the public was outraged when, during the financial crisis of 2008, Congress provided a massive financial bailout, including $70 billion of taxpayers’ money to insurance giant AIG and $80 billion to U.S. automakers General Motors, Chrysler, and GMAC. Even most politicians who voted in favor of the bailouts did so begrudgingly, in part… -
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Ross Perot Dead at 89
Texas billionaire and two-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot died Tuesday at 89 after a five-month battle with leukemia. Perot is probably best known for his presidential runs in 1992 and 1996, reported the The Dallas Morning News. Perot garnered 19% of the popular vote but no Electoral College votes in 1992 and was viewed… -
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7th Circuit Court Reminds Purdue, Other Colleges That Due Process Matters
We forget things all the time—where we put our keys, whether we turned the oven off, anniversaries, our due process rights. You know, little things. Due process rights were important 200-plus years ago, when the Framers drafted the Constitution and were worried about the unlimited power of England’s Star Chamber. That court did whatever it… -
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Podcast: Her Think Tank Helped Forge the Texas Miracle
In the last 15 years, Texas has led the way among red states showing how small government is the path to prosperity. But the Texas economic miracle can’t be told without mentioning the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the leading conservative think tank in the Lone Star State. Brooke Rollins built that foundation up to become… -
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Uzbekistan Is Making Healthy Strides Toward Good Governance
While some countries like Venezuela remain stuck with socialism, others are quietly transitioning from repression to openness. Uzbekistan is one of those countries. Though it still has a very long way to go, it is now transitioning from a command-and-control economy to a market-based economy, propelled by a wide range of reforms. To be clear,… -
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House Defense Bill Would Fail to Rebuild the Military
The House Armed Services Committee needs to do more if it’s serious about continuing to rebuild the military and meeting the challenges outlined in the president’s National Defense Strategy. It all starts with the budget. Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., has proposed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act funding our nation’s defense at $733… -
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ICE ‘Ready’ to Apprehend and Deport a Million Illegal Immigrants
The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the government is “ready” to identify, detain, and deport the illegal immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country. “They’re ready to just perform their mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately 1 million people who… -
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Pompeo Taps Panel to Promote US-Style ‘Unalienable Rights’ Globally
The State Department is rolling out a new Commission on Unalienable Rights to focus on human rights worldwide from the perspective of the nation’s founding. The commission’s focus on natural rights comes in response to what the State Department says are some of the world’s most repressive regimes hijacking the term “human rights” while infringing… -
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Switzerland Has a Budget Surplus. Here’s How, and What the US Could Learn.
As much of Washington seems resigned to sit idly by and allow the federal government to gorge on trillion-dollar deficits and push the national debt to 78% of gross domestic product—the highest levels in the post-World War II era—it might seem like a fiscally prudent budget is the stuff of fantasy. After all, the Congressional… -
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Pence Calls Out Democrats for Allowing Holocaust ‘to Be Cheapened as a Cliché’
Vice President Mike Pence criticized Democratic lawmakers Monday for diminishing the atrocities of the Holocaust in order to promulgate their own political narrative. “We can never allow the memory of those lost in the Holocaust to be forgotten by freedom-loving people around the world. We must teach our children and our children’s children the truth… -
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New Book on Kavanaugh Confirmation Holds Troubling Allegations Against Christine Blasey Ford
A forthcoming book on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court relays incendiary allegations about Christine Blasey Ford, excerpts obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show. In “Justice on Trial” authors Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino say unnamed peers accused Ford of drinking to excess and accosting boys with some regularity as a… -
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Michelle Obama: Trump’s Inauguration Crowd ‘Not Reflective of the Country’
Former first lady Michelle Obama spoke out about President Donald Trump’s inauguration, saying she was one of a “handful of people of color” in attendance. The former first lady spoke to Gayle King of “CBS This Morning” about her feelings when Trump took office, making note of the lack of diversity in the crowd. “That… -
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Antifa Is Dangerous and It’s Time for the Feds to Step In
Enough is enough. The U.S. Justice Department needs to immediately open a criminal civil rights investigation of Antifa, an affiliation of radical activists and left-wing groups whose name, ironically enough, is short for “anti-fascists.” Its attack on journalist Andy Ngo was beyond the pale. Federal law enforcement has an obligation to stop any extremist organization that is… -
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Virginia’s Gun Control Debate Begins Tuesday. Here’s What Northam Wants.
Virginia lawmakers will assemble Tuesday for the special session Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam called to debate a package of gun control measures. Northam called the special session in the wake of the Virginia Beach shooting May 31, which killed 12 people, according to The Associated Press. “Virginians deserve votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers. I urge the… -
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We Fought the Transgender Activists, and Lost. Here Are 5 Lessons for Every Parent.
Our defeat was all but inevitable, yet the transgender activists still showed up in matching shirts and waved multicolored flags. Their speakers outnumbered ours 4 to 1, but they still hissed and muttered ugly names at our side while we spoke. We had gathered for the Arlington County School Board’s meeting on June 18. For… -
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Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change
In the 1970s, Americans were told we were in a global cooling crisis and if something wasn’t done, we’d enter a new ice age. When that didn’t happen, a few decades later we were told that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming… -
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She Survived China’s Forced Labor Camp. Now She’s Urging Americans to Reject Socialism.
Jennifer Zeng grew up admiring the Communist Party of China and adhering to its stringent rules. But her life changed forever when she embraced religion and was swept up in a government crackdown on Falun Gong. Arrested four times as a young adult and held in as a prisoner in a labor camp, she quickly…