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The Sick Phenomenon of Fake Racist Crimes
Is it any wonder that American news consumers are at the end of their ropes of patience with the “mainstream media”? Three weeks ago, when I first documented troubling questions, contradictions, and doubts about Trump-hating, attention-craving actor Jussie Smollett’s absurd hate crime claims, few in the “professional” journalism herd paid heed. Now, with a grand… -
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Medicare’s Financial Condition Is Getting Worse. Here’s What Trump and Congress Can Do.
The financial condition of Medicare—the huge program that covers over 58 million beneficiaries—is deteriorating. The president and Congress are legally required to address the problem this year. For the taxpayers, it’s essential that they slow the growth in Medicare spending. For the beneficiaries, they can improve the program’s overall performance, benefit structure, and financial condition… -
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Texas Boy Says Adults Called Him ‘Little Hitler’ When He Started Raising Money for the Wall
A young Texas boy faced both praise and ridicule from adults after he opened a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trumps’ border wall. Benton Stevens—a 7-year-old from Austin, Texas—wanted to help raise funds for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after watching Trump deliver the State of the Union address earlier… -
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Judges’ Ruling Finds City’s Ban on Topless Women Discriminatory
It’s the sort of court case that belongs on The Onion. But Free the Nipple-Fort Collins v. City of Fort Collins is a real lawsuit all right—with real implications. (Legalized toplessness, if you’re wondering.) For years, conservatives have talked about the slippery slope of the gender debate. Keep your shirt on, liberals said. Well, Coloradans—you first. Call… -
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Covington Student Sues Washington Post
Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann is suing The Washington Post over its coverage of a January incident involving himself and Native American protester Nathan Phillips. Attorneys for Sandmann filed the lawsuit Tuesday, accusing the Washington newspaper of engaging in a “modern-day form of McCarthyism.” The lawsuit also blames CNN and NBC, “among others,” for taking… -
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3 Lessons From the Jussie Smollett Hoax
So, Jussie Smollett was lying. The “Empire” actor claimed that when he was walking home at 2 a.m. in Chicago, in the midst of the polar vortex, he was accosted by two assailants, both of whom shouted anti-gay and anti-black slurs at him. They then attempted to throw a noose around his neck and pour… -
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Podcast: Trump’s National Emergency Faces Legal Challenges
Sixteen states have announced they’re filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration. The Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm, an expert in legal affairs, joins us to discuss what will likely happen as the case winds through the courts. Plus: A CBS reporter says the media is biased. We also cover these stories: The… -
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The US ‘Has the Most Mass Shootings’—and Other Bogus Gun Research
Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., warned President Donald Trump that if he declared an “emergency” to build a wall, “think what a president with different values can present. … Why don’t you declare [the epidemic of gun violence in America] an emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would. … A Democratic president can… -
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In America Today, We Plunder and Call It Good
Frederic Bastiat, a French economist and member of the French National Assembly, lived from 1801 to 1850. He had great admiration for our country, except for our two faults—slavery and tariffs. He said: “Look at the United States. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain:… -
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New Data Bucks Conventional Wisdom on Free Markets and the Environment
Politicians on the left are pushing a radical “Green New Deal,” which they say is necessary to save the environment. It wouldn’t save the environment—though it would do serious damage to our economy. The surprising truth is that saving the environment and improving the economy are not at odds. In fact, new research from The… -
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3 Major Threats China Poses to the US
China is a mass of contradictions. Intellectual property thief. America’s largest trading partner. Home to 476 billionaires. Choked with air and water pollution. A rapidly aging population. And leadership eager to project its national will. I believe China is potentially the greatest national security threat facing the United States. But while China’s brilliant engineers-turned-politicians orchestrate… -
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Liberals See Truth as Subservient to Doctrine, Feelings
Truth is not a left-wing value. I first discovered this as a graduate student studying the Soviet Union and left-wing ideologies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University School of International Affairs. Everything I have learned since has confirmed this view. Individuals on both the left and right lie. Individuals on both the left and… -
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How Many Times Trump’s Predecessors Declared a National Emergency
The push for a border barrier marks President Donald Trump’s fourth declaration of a national emergency—about a third as many as his three immediate predecessors in their two terms. The number of declared emergencies puts Trump on a par with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. President Gerald Ford, who signed the 1976 National… -
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Most Americans Can’t Pass a Basic Citizenship Test. Here’s Why We Should Be Worried.
Can a nation survive ignorant of its past? We are testing that very question right now. According to a recent survey by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, most Americans would fail a basic citizenship test. Axios published a roundup of how participants performed. The results weren’t good. People did relatively well on the most… -
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19 ‘Hate Crimes’ in Trump Era That Were Hoaxes or Different Than Media Suggested
Liberal actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist and anti-gay attack on himself, which Smollett blamed on supporters of President Donald Trump. Smollett’s alleged fake “hate crime” appears to be the latest instance of liberals manufacturing hate crimes for attention in the Trump era. The Daily Caller News Foundation compiled below some of the most outrageous fake hate… -
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Trump Says Venezuela Crisis Marks ‘Twilight Hour of Socialism’
The movement for freedom in Venezuela reveals that the “twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere,” President Donald Trump said Monday night in a speech in Miami. “The Venezuelan people have spoken, and the world has heard their beautiful voice,” Trump said in his remarks at Florida International University to an audience that… -
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Federal Early Childhood Education, Care Don’t Benefit Kids. Here Are the Facts.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., unveiled Tuesday a proposal to subsidize universal early education and child care through federal subsidies. According to The Huffington Post, “no family would have to spend more than 7 percent of its household income on child care, no matter the number of kids.” Providers would have to meet safety and curriculum… -
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As Investigations Find No Collusion, Trump Haters Learn Nothing
Here is the problem for Trump critics. They began with the wrong premise. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election. Then they deluded themselves by embracing the notion that Donald Trump was illegitimate, unstable, stupid, and an offense to everything they consider normal. This led the Obama holdovers in the… -
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The Evolution of War Funding
Rosie the Riveter. Liberty Bonds. Scrap drives. In World War II, it was practically impossible to live a day in the United States without being directly affected by the war overseas. Anyone who was not actively serving on the front lines was involved somehow in the war effort on the home front. Public involvement was… -
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Justice Ginsburg Is Back at the Supreme Court, and She’s Sending a Message
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench at the Supreme Court Tuesday, the first time she has heard arguments since her treatment for lung cancer in December 2018. The justice’s presence at Tuesday’s arguments was expected—the high court’s public information office announced Friday that Ginsburg would participate in a private conference among the justices to discuss pending…