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Nevada County Forced to Investigate Voters Registered at Casinos, Strip Clubs, Bars, and Stores. Here’s What It Found.
Nevada’s largest jurisdiction investigated why voters were registered at commercial addresses such as Las Vegas casinos and strip clubs, finding at least 19 out of 90 suspect registrations that need further review. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group, dropped a lawsuit against Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo after she agreed to investigate… -
opinion
4th Circuit Decision Sets Up Next Potential 2A Showdown at Supreme Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s ban on so-called assault weapons earlier this month, likely setting the stage for the next major Second Amendment showdown at the Supreme Court. The case, Bianchi v. Brown, features Maryland residents who challenge the constitutionality of a 2013 state law that generally prohibits them… -
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How American Voters Got Dumb
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. How did American voters get so dumb? Thank a public school. It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant but our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, internets, or Kim Kardashian. This is also academic consensus,… -
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WATCH: RFK Jr. Turns Harris-Walz Sugar High Into Caffeine Crash
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” back from our live coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we discuss Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the presidency as he drops out of the race, sort of. Are we really going to see any difference in the polls nationally? What… -
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GW Braces for New Pro-Palestine Protests in Nation’s Capital
Classes are underway again at The George Washington University in the nation’s capital amid renewed anti-Israel demonstrations on campus. DMV Students for Justice in Palestine, a coalition of anti-Israel, pro-Palestine groups, led a march through GW’s campus Thursday night, demonstrating outside the home of university President Ellen Granberg. Classes resumed Thursday at GW. Last spring,… -
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Yes, Kamala’s Price Controls Lead to Socialism
“Kamala Harris Is No Communist, Socialist, or Nixon,” Jill Lawrence assures us. OK. But are we sure? Not that anyone’s asked me, but as someone who regularly accuses progressives of being “commies,” I think I can help shed some light on why many voters are getting the wrong idea. For one thing, handing self-professed socialists… -
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Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic. That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two… -
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Experts, Media Got It Wrong: The Economy Is in Far Worse Shape Than We Thought
The government, for the past year, has overstated joblessness by 818,000 jobs. That revision comes on top of the monthly revisions already made. It is probably not a conspiracy to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris look good or they would have waited until after the election, not before early voting, to announce the revision…. -
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‘Direct Attack on Vulnerable Women’: Anti-Israel Vandals Attack Pregnancy Center During DNC
Anti-Israel protesters defaced a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Chicago late Thursday night after the close of the Democratic National Convention. Vandals painted “Fake clinic” and “The real dead babies are in Gaza” in red spray paint on the entrance to the center, and put cement in the locks so employees couldn’t get into the… -
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Backstabbing Behind the Scenes at the Democratic Convention
No one is buying what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party are selling these days. Earlier this week, on the opening night of the demonic confab in Chicago that Democrats call their national convention, the outgoing commander in chief explicitly denied that he was “angry at all those people” who said he should… -
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BREAKING: RFK Suspends His Campaign, Endorses Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. He announced that while he will remain on the ballot in “safe” states where Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump are likely to prevail, he will remove his name from 10 “battleground” states and he urged… -
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The College Graduates’ Presidential Candidate Doesn’t Know Economic History
Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to learn lessons anew, and some do not. The lessons about economic growth taught over the long run of history are clear. Growth is not inevitable, and while riches may be accumulated, or appropriated, by the… -
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A Good Look at Canada’s Future Prime Minister: Pierre Poilievre’s ‘Political Life’
Canadian journalist Andrew Lawton’s “A Political Life” examines the life and career of Pierre Poilievre, a rising conservative star in Canada who is the odds-on favorite to become that country’s next prime minister. Focusing on a politician who is relatively new on the national scene—Poilievre just turned 45—and little known outside Canada, Lawton’s biography does… -
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Secret Service Agents Reportedly Put on Leave After Trump Assassination Attempt
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Several members of the U.S. Secret Service were placed on administrative leave after the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Fox News reported. At least five Secret Service members, including one from Trump’s personal protective team and four from the Pittsburgh Field Office, were put… -
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Back in the Air: Resumed F-35 Deliveries Help in Indo-Pacific
The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin recently announced resumed deliveries of F-35 aircraft configured with software called Technology Refresh-3, or TR-3. Although a truncated version of the TR-3 software is part of the package, this resumption is a milestone that comes after a yearlong freeze in which undelivered F-35s accumulated and collected dust. The TR-3… -
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The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin’s Loss of 300K Migrant Kids
In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Guatemala by President Barack Obama to implore Latin American countries and their citizens to stop smuggling unaccompanied children into the United States. “These smugglers routinely engage in physical and sexual abuse and extortion of these innocent, young women and men, by and large,” Biden said in… -
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‘Politically Captured Agency’: Why a Former FBI Agent Wants to Defund the Bureau
The FBI shouldn’t be weaponized to pick winners and losers, which is exactly what it has done by targeting pro-lifers and failing to investigate pro-abortion vandals, former FBI agent Steve Friend says. “What we’re seeing is a politically captured agency that is not only interested in the results,” Friend told The Daily Signal. “They want… -
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Kamala Harris Ducks 3 Things as She Accepts Dems’ Nomination
Before Vice President Kamala Harris hit the stage to accept her party’s nomination for president Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, her campaign told reporters what to expect. Harris campaign officials leaked to the press that the sitting vice president would reintroduce herself to Americans, despite being the second most powerful person… -
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10 Takeaways From Final Night of Democratic National Convention
Democrats gathered Thursday night in Chicago to hear a bevy of speakers followed by Vice President Kamala Harris’ formal acceptance of their nomination for president to close out the party’s convention. The weeklong coronation of Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee just one month ago, commenced with a party-like atmosphere that… -
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Trump Pledges to ‘Stop the Invasion,’ Calls Harris a ‘Marxist’ at Southern Border
With completed border wall to his right and unused construction materials to his left, former President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday in Arizona that if he wins the Nov. 5 election and returns to office in January, he will impose the death penalty on sex traffickers. “We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and…