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Electromagnetic Pulse Would Devastate Our Power Grid. Here Are 3 Steps We Must Take Now.
The Air Force released its 2018 Electromagnetic Defense Task Force report last week, which concluded that an electromagnetic pulse—generated either by a nuclear weapon or solar flare—could cripple systems that rely on the electromagnetic spectrum. The report echoes a recent Heritage Foundation assessment that warns the United States is ill-prepared for such an event. Solar… -
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Misguided Proposal From Christian Leaders and LGBT Activists Is Anything but ‘Fairness for All’
Does the golden rule ever require bad public policy? That’s the implication of what some political strategists are proposing in the name of fairness. At issue is a proposal among some Christian leaders to strike a compromise with some LGBT activists to balance “LGBT rights” with religious liberty. The proposal would elevate “sexual orientation and… -
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The Internet as We Know It Supposedly Ended a Year Ago, According to CNN and Other Outlets
You might not have noticed it, but the internet as we knew it ended a year ago today, at least according to the predictive powers-that-be at CNN and other media organizations. That’s because on Dec. 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission ended the 2015 Open Internet Order, aka the net neutrality regulations implemented by the… -
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MSNBC’s Mika Apologizes for ‘Crass and Offensive’ ‘Butt Boy’ Comment About Mike Pompeo
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski apologized Friday for referring to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “wannabe dictator’s butt boy” just two days earlier. “I wanted to address a term that I used on this show on Wednesday that was vulgar. I knew it right away and I tweeted that it was a terrible choice of… -
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What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today
Without a doubt, Bill Buckley would have happily joined the recent National Review Caribbean cruise, which sailed from Key West to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale on the good ship Oosterdam of the venerable Holland America Line. He would have been surrounded by the perspicacious editors and contributors of his favorite… -
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Podcast: ‘Problematic Women’ on the Women’s March Debacle
Following an explosive report alleging anti-Semitism and curious financial decisions from the Women’s March leadership, we break down what this means. Plus: Ginny Montalbano sits down with a female small business owner whose family lived under socialism in Cuba. We also cover these stories: President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is headed to prison, and… -
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Trump’s Newly Unveiled Strategy Will Advance US-Africa Relations
National security adviser John Bolton presented the Trump administration’s new Africa strategy Thursday at The Heritage Foundation. The strategy focused on three priorities: Enhancing U.S. trade and commercial ties with African nations through arrangements that benefit both the United States and Africa. According to Bolton, “We want our economic partners in the region to thrive,… -
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Prison Reform Should Be a Conservative Priority, Mike Lee Argues
One of the Senate’s conservative stalwarts, Mike Lee of Utah, says lawmakers should pass a criminal justice reform bill before the end of the year because it is necessary to the nation’s well-being. “We’ve seen what happens when we take away somebody’s brother or son or uncle or nephew or father and we warehouse them… -
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California to Consider Taxing Text Messages in 2019
California regulators are currently contemplating whether residents would have to pay a fee on text messages from their cellphones. The proposed tax would help fund programs in the state that provides low-income Californians with phone service and will be discussed further during the January 2019 meeting by the California Public Utilities Commission. The rational from California regulators is this:… -
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Justice Department Investigators Unable to Find Peter Strzok’s Text Messages During Mueller Probe, Report Says
Department of Justice investigators were unable to recover text messages Peter Strzok and Lisa Page sent during their short tenure on the special counsel’s investigation, according to a report released Thursday by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General. According to the inspector general report, iPhones issued by the Special Counsel’s Office to Strzok and Page… -
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A Salute to Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch has been the senior senator from Utah for 26 of his 42 years in the Senate. He is retiring from that extraordinary period of service and, on Dec. 12, made what he called his “final request” from the Senate floor. Some descriptors begin with “longest-serving” because Hatch has been a senator for a… -
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John Bolton: US Must Curb Chinese, Russian Influence in Africa
The United States must revamp policies toward Africa on improving trade, fighting terrorism, and providing financial assistance to stave off the growing influence of China and Russia on the continent, White House national security adviser John Bolton said. “Great power competitors, namely China and Russia, are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across Africa,”… -
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San Francisco Creates First Transgender District
San Francisco created a special cultural district for transgender persons, marking the first legal transgender district created anywhere in the world. San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is now home to “Compton’s Transgender Cultural District,” The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The Tenderloin is a triangular neighborhood located a few blocks from San Francisco's City Hall. It is also San Francisco's… -
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Michigan Lawmaker Wants to Fine Restaurants Hundreds for Handing Out Plastic Straws
A Michigan state lawmaker is pushing two bills that would impose a hefty fine on distributing plastic straws unless requested and ban single-use plastic items such as cotton swabs, cutlery, and plates, the Michigan Capitol Confidential reports. Democratic state Rep. Tom Cochran introduced the pair of bills, House Bill 6504 and House Bill 6505, Nov. 27 to start a conversation… -
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The Peace Cross Honoring Fallen Veterans Should Not Be Bulldozed
Forty-nine families in Prince George’s County, Maryland, lost their sons in World War I. With their loved ones buried in European theaters of war, most of the families could not visit the graves. So in 1925, the American Legion and the Gold Star families erected a monument in the county to them—and all soldiers who… -
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Why Our Country Needs the Wall, and Now
The United States is the most generous, pro-immigrant country in the world. Annually, we take in more immigrants than any other country on the planet. Couple that with the fact that immigration has been a driving issue in the last two campaign cycles, and it is more than reasonable to demand that the next funding… -
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Comey Continues to Display His Lack of Credibility
Fired former FBI Director James Comey is at it again. Last week, Comey testified before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a single appearance, Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with “I don’t know,” “I don’t remember,” or “I don’t recall,” according… -
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Many Millions of Americans Work and Shop at Walmart. So, Why Does Bernie Sanders Want to Stop Them?
Sen. Bernie Sanders is back again, with yet another attempt to indirectly mandate the $15 an hour minimum wage. It’s called the Stop WALMART Act, or Stop Welfare for Any Large Monopoly Amassing Revenue from Taxpayers Act. It would affect large (500-plus employees) companies, and among other things would prohibit them from buying back stock… -
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The Breakdown of Family and Religion Explains France’s Social Unrest
As France is gripped by civil disorder, many commentators identify, quite correctly, as the culprit the outsized burden that France’s bloated welfare state places on its citizens. According a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the highest tax burden in the industrialized world is in France—46.1 percent of gross domestic product…. -
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USA Today’s Coverage of Young Athlete’s Old Tweets Is Vigilantism, Not Journalism
This week, I did something that USA Today’s executive leadership apparently hadn’t done lately: I read the newspaper’s “principles of ethical conduct for newsrooms.” It’s pretty highfalutin. The media manifesto of virtue, posted online, applies to all employees “working with any news platform, including newspapers, websites, mobile devices, video, social media channels, and live story…