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Markets and Miracles
In this season of giving, I’ll donate to The Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe’s approach doesn’t include many handouts. It’s mostly about encouraging people to work.“Work works!” they say. It does. Most Doe Fund workers don’t go back to jail. I’ll also donate… -
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Honduran Nationals Reportedly Run Fentanyl Trafficking Rings in Major Cities
Honduran nationals are running fentanyl trafficking rings in cities across the western U.S., an alternative newspaper in Oregon reports. Law enforcement agencies have been investigating a cartel using “Honduran nationals to distribute bulk amounts of fentanyl … in the western United States,” according to Willamette Week, citing a criminal complaint filed Dec. 12 in U.S. District… -
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US Consumers Face Higher Prices for Goods as Houthis Continue Attacks on Commercial Vessels
The Houthi attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea are threatening to disrupt U.S. and global markets with delayed shipping times and increased goods prices, The Washington Post reported. The Yemen-based Houthis have launched several attacks since Oct. 7 against vessels in the Red Sea as part of retaliation efforts against Israel and its allies. In… -
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It’s Up to the American People to Fix Higher Education
American institutions of higher education won’t reform on their own. The recent explosion of antisemitism on college campuses has made many Americans—including high-profile donors—turn against modern academia. How could our schools be filled with so many frothing antisemites who hate Jews, hate America, and hate the West? This has prompted many to understand the depth… -
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Italy’s Prime Minister Wisely Spurns Deal With China
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni delivered a Christmas present earlier this month to a free and prosperous Europe when she dumped Italy’s deal with China on its Belt and Road Initiative. Despite assurances from the center-left Democratic Party that initially orchestrated the deal, Italy, like most of the 17 other countries in the European Union that signed agreements, never saw many… -
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Choice Position on Schooling
Liberal activist Kirk Bangstad’s Minocqua Brewing Co. SuperPAC on Oct. 12 filed a petition with the Wisconsin Supreme Court that sought to dismantle the state’s popular school choice programs and shutter the state’s independent charter schools. Bangstad hired international law firm Perkins Coie LLP—armed with more than $1 billion in revenue and 1,120 attorneys—to take… -
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Rogue Agencies Flout Constitution and Undermine Our Republic’s Institutions
Students learn in civics class—or at least they used to—that under the U.S. Constitution, Congress passes the laws, and the president and the rest of the executive branch have the duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” It seems that many federal officials missed that lesson in school, however, since government agencies… -
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AOC’s Anti-Historical Palestinian Christmas
Many on the Left have long attempted to reframe the Christmas story to push their political agenda. They urge lax enforcement of immigration law by insisting that Jesus was a refugee. Now, they claim Jesus would be Palestinian today to undermine support for Israel’s response to Hamas’ massacre of innocents on Oct. 7. On Christmas… -
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Michigan Supreme Court Declines to Remove Trump From State’s 2024 Ballot
The Michigan Supreme Court declined Wednesday to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. The court wrote that it was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court” before rejecting the case on procedural grounds, according to a brief order. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to… -
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The Lessons of 2023
2023 was a rather bad year. Not as bad as 2024 is likely to be, or as 2020 was. But bad. Nonetheless, we ought to learn from the bad as well as the good. So, in a spirit of reflection, I offer a few lessons we ought to remember from this crummy year. Lesson No…. -
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Associated Press Gets It Wrong: Wind Farm Contractors Acknowledge Turbines Harm Dolphins, Whales
When wind turbine companies seek permission to harm sea life, reporters for The Associated Press blame The Heritage Foundation (where I work) and The Heartland Institute, instead of reporting the facts. It was a Chico Marx moment: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes? The misleading AP article—carried by WBTS-TV in Boston; The Daily… -
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The BorderLine: Chicago Mayor Lashes Out as Illegal Aliens Flood His Sanctuary City
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to its impact on cities and states throughout America. We also will shed light on other critical border-related issues such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. *** Chicago, like New York City, is struggling amid mass arrivals… -
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Washington Subway’s Financial Woes Underscore Folly of Virginia Sports Arena Plan
It would be nearly impossible to make the folly of government economic development more obvious than two recent announcements in the Washington, D.C., area. On Dec. 13, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a $2 billion arena project in suburban Alexandria, Virginia, that would be the new home for the NHL’s Washington Capitals and NBA’s Washington Wizards of the NBA, who now… -
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4 Ways Struggling Americans Would Bear Brutal Impact of $17 Minimum Wage
With 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, most U.S. households could use a raise. But an arbitrary, one-size-fits-all increase in the minimum wage imposed by lawmakers in Washington would only exacerbate the struggles of these households. According to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, proposed legislation to increase the federal minimum wage… -
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Here’s the Right Way to Deweaponize the FBI
FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin revealed in February the existence of a memorandum within the FBI’s field office in Richmond, Virginia, that labeled Catholics as potential domestic terrorists. Last Monday, almost a full year after Seraphin’s disclosure, the House Judiciary Committee released a report on it. The House committee’s report, titled “The FBI’s Breach of Religious… -
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Shakespeare’s Christmas
This Christmas is a troubled time—a season of war rather than peace, from the Black Sea to Bethlehem. America is full of political foreboding, and Christmas itself has become a source of controversy. Some find the holiday adrift from its true meaning, a Christian holy day transformed into a celebration of consumerism, when fir trees… -
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Inventor Gaston Glock’s Firearms Legacy Lives On
Gaston Glock, the brilliant Austrian inventor, entrepreneur, and founder of one of the most successful firearms manufacturers in history, passed away Wednesday at 94. The cause of death was not immediatly announced. In 1963, as Europe was attempting to rebuild every aspect of its economy after the devastation of World War II, Glock founded Glock… -
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Oklahoma Becomes Latest State to Condemn DEI on Campus
Criticism continues to mount against so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices on college campuses. And the list of state policymakers calling for defunding the offices and eliminating their discriminatory practices is also growing—just in time for state legislators to work on the issue in the new year. The latest lawmaker to prohibit the use of taxpayer spending on DEI… -
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Remembering National Empowerment Television
When TV producer Norman Lear died, The New York Times‘ obituary said there were “critics” who insisted the date “All in the Family” premiered on CBS in January 1971 represented a “day of infamy” in American broadcasting. By contrast, for conservative television, 30 years ago this month, Dec. 6, 1993, was a welcomed day and… -
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Biden Gives Bureaucrats Biggest Pay Bump Since Carter
Beginning in January, federal civilian employees will see their salaries increase by the largest percentage since the Carter administration. President Joe Biden signed an executive order in December giving federal employees an average of a 5.2% increase in pay, the largest increase since former President Jimmy Carter raised federal salaries by 9.1% in 1980. Meanwhile, Americans are dealing with inflation…