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opinion
Carson Hounded by Open Borders Liberals for Putting Americans First
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as “despicable” and “damaging.” Those are the hysterical words used by Democratic Rep. Carolyn… -
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In Another Reversal, Apple Allows App Countering Climate Alarmism
Apple’s on-again, off-again relationship with an online smartphone application that challenges global warming alarmism is back on. The app, Inconvenient Facts, is available again in Apple’s App Store, much to the delight of the geologist who inspired it. “I thought that it was entirely political,” Gregory Wrightstone, author of the book “Inconvenient Facts: The Science… -
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The Trans Lobby Is Now Marketing to Your Kids
As the LGBT movement continues to grow in power and influence, it has started to market drag and transgender ideology to the most gullible group out there: children. These efforts normalize concepts that are unscientific and that promote medical treatments that many medical professionals oppose. Take what happened recently on Mother’s Day. Chips Ahoy!, king… -
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New York Lawmakers Pass Bill That Would Allow Congress Access to Trump’s Tax Returns in the State
The New York state Assembly passed a bill Wednesday to allow Congress to obtain information on state tax returns for elected officials, which would include President Donald Trump’s returns. The bill passed 84-53 and would allow the New York Department of Taxation and Finance commissioner to release any state tax returns about those in federal,… -
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William Barr: More Nationwide Injunctions in Trump Era Than in Entire 20th Century
Attorney General William Barr condemned the rise of nationwide injunctions Tuesday, saying such sweeping orders undermine the rule of law. Nationwide injunctions prohibit the federal government from enforcing a particular law or policy across the entire country. Progressive cause lawyering groups have used such injunctions to stymie a wide array of Trump policy priorities. “Since… -
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Investigation of Northam’s Yearbook Photo Unable to Determine Whether He’s in Photo
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) released the results of a monthslong investigation into offensive images on Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 senior yearbook page Wednesday. EVMS hired the law firm McGuireWoods to conduct the investigation. The McGuireWoods investigation ended inconclusively, and attorneys blamed the passage of time and lack of documented evidence for the… -
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Greenpeace Co-Founder Tells Congress to Ignore UN’s Latest Extinction Warning
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore will tell House lawmakers an alarming United Nations report on biodiversity is political activism masquerading as credible science, according to written testimony. “It is clear that the highly exaggerated claims of the [U.N.] are not so much out of concern for endangered species as they are a front for a radical… -
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Senate Picks Up the Pace in Confirming New Judges
Senate Republicans used the so-called nuclear option April 3 to eliminate one of the Democrats’ tactics for slowing down the process for considering President Donald Trump’s nominees. In a column here at the time, I wrote that Republicans “need to seize this opportunity so that the government that Americans elected in 2016 can function as… -
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The Real Inclusive Approach to Immigrants
Is President Donald Trump’s call for patriotic assimilation, which is a part of his immigration package, a step toward totalitarianism and fascism? These are the hyperbolic claims made in a contentious op-ed by Fabiola Santiago, a columnist at the Miami Herald. Santiago highlighted my own work in this field, citing a 2016 paper. While ordinarily… -
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The Wind Is Shifting Behind the Pro-Life Cause
Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade ushered in what would eventually lead to abortion on demand, including partial-birth abortion and even the failure to protect babies born alive after failed procedure, the pro-life movement has achieved few legislative victories. That may be about to change. While New York and several other states have passed statutes… -
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Texas Lawmakers Pass ‘Save Chick-Fil-A’ Bill
Texas’ Republican-controlled House voted Monday to pass a “Save Chick-fil-A” bill. The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill does not allow the government to take “any adverse action” against any contractor, individual, or business because of their religious beliefs. “It strengthens and reaffirms Texas’ First Amendment rights,” Republican state Rep. Matt Krause said to The Daily Caller News Foundation…. -
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House Appropriators Vote to Handcuff Pentagon for Reprogramming Funds to Border Wall
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has slashed the Pentagon’s reprogramming authority by 75% in the approved defense appropriations bill reported out on May 15. The subcommittee, led by Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., reduced the ability of the Defense Department to shift unused resources from lower to higher priorities within the department from $4 billion or… -
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No, Abortion Isn’t a Constitutional Right
In the past several weeks, a bevy of states have passed extensive new restrictions on abortion. Alabama has effectively banned abortion from point of conception. Georgia has banned abortion from the time a heartbeat is detected, as have Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Missouri has banned abortion after eight weeks. Other states are on the move… -
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Alabama and Georgia Abortion Laws on Right Track
When we talk about “pro-life” in our national discussion about abortion, “life” is understood to be about the unborn child in the mother’s womb. But it would serve us well to expand our understanding about what “pro-life” means. We should understand that respecting the sanctity of life is key to the values and behaviors in… -
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Will the BUILD Act Improve Lending in Poor Countries and Counter China? The Jury’s Still Out
During debate over the BUILD Act (Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act)—a bill that would rename and double the size of the Overseas Private Investment Corp.—proponents asserted that it was needed to counter China’s aggressive “One Belt, One Road” debt-trap diplomacy initiative that finances infrastructure projects in developing countries. The question is, will… -
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Medicare for All Would Eliminate Americans’ Choices in Health Coverage
With the debate over health care heating up again, Medicare for All once more is a hot topic. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has sponsored a new version of his Senate bill that promises to free Americans from health care concerns. But at the core of the Sanders bill is still the vast and fundamentally illiberal… -
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Segregation Is Back, and It’s Coming From the Left
Integration used to be a major goal of the civil rights movement. But today, in many places, resegregation is the growing trend—particularly on college campuses. A new National Association of Scholars report finds that 7 out of 10 colleges surveyed are having separate graduations for those of certain racial or ethnic backgrounds. Dion Pierre of… -
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Socialism Promises a Utopia, but Delivers Suffering
Presidential contenders are in a battle to out-give one another. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposes a whopping $50,000 per student college loan forgiveness. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes free health care for all Americans plus illegal aliens. Most Democratic presidential candidates promise free stuff that includes free college, universal income, “Medicare for All,” and debt… -
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This Arizona Policy Change Is Robbing Navajo Kids of School Opportunity
Three thousand and one hundred feet. That’s the distance between Hilltop Christian School in New Mexico and the Arizona border—but for students in the Navajo Nation, it might as well be 3,100 miles. A change in policy by the state Department of Education means Navajo Nation students living on the Arizona side are no longer… -
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House Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Action on Women’s Right to Vote
Lawmakers took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of action on the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. The House passed what would become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 304-90 on May 21, 1919. The amendment was ratified by…