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They Spent $29,284 per Pupil, but Only 28% of Eighth Graders Rated Proficient in Math
The public schools in the state of New York doled out $29,284 per pupil in “current expenditures” in fiscal year 2022, according to a report published this week by the Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. “Current expenditures comprise expenditures for the day-to-day operation of schools and school districts for public elementary and… -
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US Is Failing to Counter Threat of Chinese Land Ownership, Report Finds
The United States government is not appropriately addressing the threat posed by growing Chinese ownership of American land, according to a report released by The Heritage Foundation Thursday. The federal government is woefully ill-equipped to track Chinese-owned real estate in the country, despite the serious threat these Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities can pose to critical U.S…. -
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Here’s What Biden Admin Apologists Aren’t Telling You About Jobless Rate
Americans consistently voice their disapproval on the state of the economy in recent polls, largely because of the stratospheric cost of living. But apologists for the Biden administration point to the low unemployment rate of 3.9% in April as proof of the economy’s strength. Yet this is a hollow talking point, since the real unemployment rate is likely between 6.5% and… -
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FOIA Questions for DC Prosecutor Matt Graves: Why Don’t You Take Gun Crimes Seriously?
Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, doesn’t take gun crimes seriously. The result has been more murder, mayhem, and carnage across the nation’s capital. And now there is more data to prove that point, in the form of the 2023 annual report by the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission. The Sentencing… -
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Who Will Tell Her Story?
No one wants to talk about it. Not about how illegal immigration on the U.S. southern border, facilitated by brutal Mexican cartels, “dehumanizes” people. Not about the “broken young women,” who—hopeful for a new life and having paid thousands of dollars to the cartels—must comply “with anything” to be trafficked across the border. Not about… -
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‘Green’ Housing Mandates Push Americans Further Into the Red
Home prices across the nation are back up near a record high. That makes this a particularly bad time for the Biden administration to have rolled out its new “green” energy mandates, which will add $31,000 to the cost of a new home. The mandates are being pushed through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and while they technically won’t apply… -
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House of Drama: Speaker Johnson Survives Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Ouster Attempt
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill. Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chair—the House’s terminology for… -
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On Mother’s Day, Let’s Celebrate the True Strength and Empowerment Motherhood Brings
At just 11 years old, I watched as a midwife cared for my mother and delivered my baby sister. A spark burst into a flame inside of me, and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to be a part of the beauty and wonder of birth and be a mother myself one… -
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‘SNL’ Gets It Right With Pro-Palestine Protest Sketch
Some in the senior class of 2020 who did not have a high school graduation because of COVID-19 will now be denied a college graduation as well. Columbia University and the University of Southern California have canceled their traditional large graduation ceremonies due to the pro-Palestine protests on campus. Emory University in Atlanta has announced… -
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She Spoke Out in Defense of China’s Uyghurs, Then China Abducted Her Sister
Rushan Abbas, a Muslim Uyghur living in America, delivered remarks at the Hudson Institute in 2018 about China’s persecution of Uyghurs. Six days later, her sister was arrested by the Chinese government. “My freedom of speech in America as an American citizen, my First Amendment right, cost my own sister’s freedom,” Abbas, founder and executive… -
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Roy, Lee Introduce Bill to Require Citizenship Proof to Vote
Pointing to the combination of an open border and declining confidence in elections, congressional Republicans are backing legislation to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. “Due to the wide-open border that the Biden administration has refused to close, practically engineered to open, we now have so many noncitizens in the country that… -
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House Passes Bill to Restore Citizenship Question to Census
Legislation adopted Wednesday by the House of Representatives would restore a question about U.S. citizenship to the 2030 census, potentially reshaping congressional representation and the Electoral College. Lawmakers voted, 206-202, to pass the Equal Representation Act, a bill championed by Reps. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio. (See how your representative voted.) Sen. Bill… -
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PolitiFact Shames Talk of ‘Outside Agitators’ in College Protests
You can tell when the PolitiFact website is going to negotiate around the facts. On May 7, its top headline on the homepage asked: “Are ‘outside agitators’ co-opting campus protests?” This isn’t quite the right question. The media have presented these events as “student” protests, so if half the participants aren’t college students, how would… -
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How the Left Tried to Use Stormy Daniels to Impeach Trump
Years before the prosecution called the former porn star to testify Tuesday in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in Manhattan, Democrats viewed Stormy Daniels as an avenue for impeaching Trump when he was president. My 2020 book “Abuse of Power” details the origins of Left’s lawfare against Trump, which began immediately after his 2016 election to… -
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NPR’s CEO Is a No-Show at Hearing Looking Into Bias at Taxpayer-Funded Network
A House subcommittee on Wednesday discussed the increasing left-wing bias at National Public Radio, a taxpayer-funded news and features network. The hearing stemmed from a debate sparked by an online essay a month ago in The Free Press by longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner, who alleged that the network was both extremely biased and had… -
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Sick Jews
I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews. When one observes Jews who defend those whose raison d’etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you have to ask:… -
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Europe Must Stop Dragging Its Feet and Oppose Chinese Forced Labor
British parliamentarian William Wilberforce’s legacy rests on his bold public stance against slavery. The legendary 18th- and 19th-century abolitionist stood up before the British people in the House of Commons with a message of piercing moral clarity: Whatever the cost of abolition, there is no excuse for slavery. After several years of impassioned advocacy, Wilberforce… -
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5 Examples of How Congress Wastes Your Money Amid Inflation
The latest inflation numbers show 3.5% annual growth for consumer prices, still well above pre-pandemic levels. That means millions of families are struggling to get back to where they were in 2021. This should come as no surprise, since excessive deficit spending from Washington remains much too high. In 2023, the federal government spent $6.1 trillion (roughly $47,000 per household)… -
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How China’s Climate Agenda Threatens US
China is intentionally advancing a climate agenda for its own gain, and America is allowing it to happen, according to a senior research fellow for international affairs at The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. China has “taken advantage of the United States, because we’ve had this very driven climate agenda,” Heritage’s Erin Walsh says. (Heritage founded… -
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‘We Will Not Stand By’: Florida Sues Biden Admin to Block New Trans Health Care Rule
Florida filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday after it released a rule barring health care providers from discriminating based on “gender identity” or “sexual orientation.” The Department of Health and Human Services released the rule on April 26 as a part of the Affordable Care Act and bans health care and insurance providers…