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opinion
The Covington Catholic Story Nearly Ruined Kids’ Lives. It Was Fake News at Its Worst.
Sometimes, a three-point celebration is just a three-point celebration. Sometimes, a pep rally is just a pep rally. Sometimes, a smile is just a smile. And sometimes, a hat is just a hat. Only among the most deranged partisans could a universal sports ritual, a common high school activity, a typical teen face, and patriotic… -
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Covington Student Was Indicted for the Sin of Smirking While White
This article originally appeared at The American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute. Suppose the second video had never come out and the Covington Catholic High School boys had not been exonerated. Suppose the media had not been compelled to issue pathetic, half-hearted apologies for stoking the flames of hatred after the incident. Suppose the… -
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won’t Let Facts Get in the Way of Dire Narrative
A few weeks ago, the fresh face of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave one of the great defenses in the history of politics. Accused of fibbing and twisting facts to meet her radical agenda, Ocasio-Cortez explained, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically… -
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Podcast: The War on Christians Who Speak Out
In the past couple of weeks, Karen Pence has been attacked for teaching at a Christian school, a group of Catholic school teen boys at the March for Life have been smeared as racists, and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, tied Catholic organization Knights of Columbus to the “alt-right.” The Heritage Foundation’s Monica Burke joins us… -
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How Liberals Have Given Blacks Little for Their Loyalty
In 1976, Gerald Ford won 15 percent of the black vote. That’s the most of any recent Republican presidential candidate. In most elections, blacks give Democrats over 90 percent of their votes. It’s not unreasonable to ask what have blacks gained from such unquestioning loyalty to the Democratic Party. After all, the absolute worst public… -
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Review Census Citizenship Case
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to hear a case on including a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Last week, federal Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled the Census Bureau could not ask about citizenship. The judge ruled the question would lead to undercounting illegal residents… -
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Why Ginsburg Fought Discrimination ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ Not Gender Identity
Growing up with only sisters as siblings, we were raised to aspire to all that we were capable of—no “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts.” So, while Ruth Bader Ginsburg may not be my favorite Supreme Court justice in terms of her jurisprudence, I deeply admire how she proved that she is just as capable as any… -
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In Calling Pence ‘Worst Christian,’ Lady Gaga Acts Like Intolerant Anti-Feminist
Hollywood is once again virtue-signaling to the rest of the country. This time famous singer-songwriter Lady Gaga is calling Vice President Mike Pence the “worst Christian”—because he supports his wife’s decision to teach art at a Christian school in Virginia. “You say we should not discriminate against Christianity—you are the worst representation of what it… -
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The Covington Fiasco Is a Perfect Example of Why the Founders Distrusted Democracy
In the shallow world of modernity, we throw around a word like “democracy” as a stand-in for “things that I like.” Many in popular culture and elite institutions promote democracy as a cure for all that ails us—an unquestioned and unqualified blessing. Still others turn on a dime and hope for its demise as soon… -
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Supreme Court to Hear First Gun Rights Case in Nearly a Decade
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a case challenging New York City’s prohibition on transporting licensed handguns within city limits to locations other than shooting ranges. The petitioners are challenging city regulations that almost entirely forbid residents from removing lawfully owned handguns from their homes. This is the first significant Second Amendment… -
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How School Choice Is Breaking Down Barriers in Puerto Rico
The new year is bringing exciting developments to Puerto Rico’s education reforms. Not only will the U.S. territory open new charter schools, it will also launch a new pilot private school voucher program in the fall. The need for education reform is most clearly illustrated by Puerto Rico’s National Assessment of Educational Progress results, where… -
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How School Choice Is Lifting Thousands of Kids Across America
It’s amazing how far school choice has come since the first National School Choice Week was held in 2011. That year, 18 states and Washington, D.C., offered 31 school choice programs (vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts) enabling some 212,000 students to attend a private school of choice. Today, 65 private school choice options… -
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DC Think Tank Calls on NBC to Stop Blacking Out Climate Skeptics
A Washington-based think tank published an ad Tuesday pressing NBC News to stop blacklisting climate skeptics from debating aspects of global warming on the channel’s broadcasts. The Competitive Enterprise Institute created an ad campaign pushing NBC’s "Meet the Press" to include climate skeptics in future broadcasts discussing aspects of global warming. NBC refused to run… -
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Memo to Therapists: We Need More Masculinity, Not Less
The American Psychological Association has, in its words, issued “its first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys.” These guidelines “draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage.” Three observations: 1) The last thing American males need today… -
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Yes, MAGA Hats Symbolize Something. But Not Hate.
By now much of America has seen the images of teenage boys in “Make America Great Again” hats milling near a chanting Native American elder. Initially, the boys were condemned by the left and the right. More video of the incident, however, revealed the boys were not the instigators. After that hasty condemnation, some high-profile… -
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Covington Catholic High School Announces Closure Over Security Concerns
An all-boys Catholic school in Kentucky is closed over security concerns following a viral video showing its students in Make America Great Again hats in an encounter with an American Indian. While the initial video made it seem like the students were mocking American Indian Nathan Phillips, a complete, unedited version shows Phillips had approached the… -
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Voter Fraud Leads to Removal of Alabama Mayor
The mayor of Gordon, Alabama, was removed from office last week after a jury found him guilty on two felony counts of absentee ballot fraud. Both he and his one-time constituents are learning firsthand the high price of voter fraud. Of course, to hear many on the left tell the story, voter fraud isn’t real…. -
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump Transgender Military Policy—for Now
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a limited ruling Tuesday on the issue of transgender people serving in the military. The narrow issue the high court decided on in the broader case of Trump v. Karnoski was whether to uphold a lower court’s injunction preventing the military from implementing the Defense Department’s… -
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Trump Says Covington Boys Coverage Shows How ‘Evil’ Fake News Can Be
President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the Covington Catholic High School boys who were portrayed as the villains in a now-debunked media narrative have become a symbol of fake news. “Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of fake news and how evil it can be,” Trump tweeted. “They have captivated the… -
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We Had an Abortion. It Wasn’t My Body, but It Was My Baby.
When I was 19, I got a friend pregnant. In the summer, a friend and I had spent an evening together. A few weeks later she told me she was pregnant, and it was mine. I “wasn’t ready for a baby.” I had hopes and dreams ahead of me, and having a child seemed like…