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Good Guys With Guns
Do you carry a gun? Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy. “Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s “The Rookie.” Liberal politicians agree. “A good guy with a gun… -
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6 Secretaries of State Testify to Congress on Reliability of Elections. Here Are 4 Takeaways.
Six secretaries of state from across America fielded questions in congressional testimony Wednesday about increasing public confidence in elections. House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., was among committee members who pushed the top state election officials on campaign finance, noncitizen voting, and other election security issues. The secretaries of state who testified were from both… -
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South Carolina Court Strips Families of Educational Freedom
South Carolina dad David Warner is afraid to tell his sixth-grade son that he will have to leave his school, teachers, and friends because the state Supreme Court struck down the Palmetto State’s school voucher program. “Today definitely felt like a kick in the stomach,” Warner said. The Warner family was using an education savings… -
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Late-Term Abortion: 5 Facts Harris, Liberal Media Want to Conceal
Predictably, the issue of abortion was one of the first to come up during Tuesday night’s presidential debate on ABC. And predictably, both the moderators and Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t let pesky facts get in the way of their shared agenda. Harris refused to identify a single limit on abortion that she would support…. -
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NO CONFIDENCE: Far-Left Smear Factory’s Union Votes by 90% to Oust President After Mass Layoffs
The Left eats its own, and it seems the Southern Poverty Law Center is no exception. The SPLC—a far-left smear factory notorious for demonizing conservatives and Christians as being as hateful as the KKK and for spreading woke dogma in schools—has its own labor union, and members of that union overwhelmingly cast a vote of… -
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Speaker Johnson Pulls Spending Bill Vote Amid GOP Opposition
House Speaker Mike Johnson has deferred the vote on a bill to fund the government through March. The temporary government-funding mechanism, called a continuing resolution, would have included the SAVE Act, an election-integrity measure meant to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. Johnson has pulled the bill until next week in hopes of… -
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Why Won’t This Swing State Clear 4 Million Ineligible Names From Voter Rolls?
One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from its voter rolls. “Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5 million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “So why do election officials… -
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Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Harris and Other Big Debate Night Moments
Moments after the end of the first presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift issued her endorsement. “I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Swift wrote in a post on Instagram Tuesday night. “I think she is a… -
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In Pennsylvania, Trump Vows to Hold Harris Accountable and Take Country to Better Place
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania—Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his message to undecided voters in Pennsylvania ahead of the Nov. 5 general election is that his second administration would bring prosperity to Pennsylvanians through commonsense approaches to energy, border security, and strengthening manufacturing. “We are going to bring the cost… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Rips Goldman Sachs for Propping Up Harris
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson called out Goldman Sachs on Tuesday for suggesting the economy under Vice President Kamala Harris could be more beneficial, arguing the group and others like it are pushing an agenda that could “destroy” middle-class Americans. Last week, Goldman Sachs economists released a note suggesting Harris’ policies might… -
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Priced Out of the American Dream: A Would-Be Homebuyer’s View From Wisconsin
EAU CLAIRE, Wis.—Craig Ervin, a skilled welder from my hometown of Eau Claire, is forced to rent. “I always wanted my own place, but I don't even bother looking anymore. Gets my hopes up, then I see the prices. It's just depressing how expensive it's gotten,” he said. Like many Wisconsinites, Ervin is wondering how… -
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Trump Says ABC’s License Should Be Yanked Over Debate Moderators’ Performance
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that ABC’s license should be revoked over its alleged bias in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris during Tuesday night’s presidential debate. Trump told the co-hosts of “Fox & Friends” that ABC News debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were “dishonest” for not correcting Harris’ false… -
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Biden DOJ Dropped Nearly Half of Pending Obstruction Charges for Jan. 6 Defendants After Supreme Court Ruling
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden Department of Justice dropped nearly half of pending obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants since the Supreme Court issued a major ruling in June, according to recent data. The Supreme Court ruled in June that in charging Jan. 6 defendants, the DOJ had interpreted too broadly a statute that carries up to 20 years… -
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The 10 Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC Debate
Presidential debates have often been compared to professional wrestling matches, but the ABC News debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris more closely resembled a handicap match, with Trump taking on three opponents at once: Harris and both moderators. As “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir and ABC News Live “Prime”… -
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DeSantis Stands Firm Against Satanists’ Desire to Counsel Students
It seems that the English language is somewhat difficult to learn for those who don’t apprehend it as their native tongue. One of the reasons: English has significant built-in complexities that tend to cause a great deal of confusion. At the risk of creating an additional brushfire in the realm of political correctness, consider the… -
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You Hate Trump? Get Over It.
A great many Americans claim that they cannot vote for former President Donald Trump because they loathe him. That was also their argument in 2016 and 2020. That argument was childish in 2016 and 2020, and it remains childish in 2024. I say “childish” because mature people don't vote on the basis of whom they… -
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This Calculator Tells You the Size of Inflation’s Bite Into Your Household Budget
While many economic pundits point to cooling inflation, The Heritage Foundation’s new Personal Inflation Calculator showcases the cumulative effect of inflation on the average American. Since the Biden-Harris administration took office in January 2021, Americans have felt the pain of rising prices. The federal government’s excessive spending and borrowing habits led to record-high inflation…. -
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When the Media Can’t Find a Left-Wing Label for Kamala Harris
Even battle-hardened conservatives can find it shocking when Democrat-boosting reporters fail to identify Kamala Harris as a “liberal” or a “progressive” or even, dare one say it, a “left-wing radical.” In a new Media Research Center study of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” since Harris was anointed in a backroom as President Joe Biden’s replacement on… -
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Threat of Another Terrorist Attack ‘Is Higher Now’ Than in Months Before 9/11, Expert Says
It was 23 years ago Wednesday that terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airline flights, turned the planes into weapons, crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, and in the process killed nearly 3,000 people. Today, America is at risk of another equally as deadly terrorist attack, a… -
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3 on 1: Trump Clashes With Harris—and the Debate ‘Moderators’
ABC’s debate moderators' performance in Tuesday night’s presidential debate made CNN’s performance in June look like a master class in fairness, objectivity, and balance. It was exactly the kind of debate moderation left-wing commentators on X have been demanding for months—years, really. They don’t want anything approaching objectivity. They wanted moderators to “fact-check” former President…