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Pope Francis Forced to Cancel Meetings Over Breathing Difficulties
Pope Francis has canceled a series of meetings this week after falling ill, the Vatican said on Monday. The pope is suffering breathing difficulties due to inflammation of the lungs and has postponed some of his meetings until he recovers, the Vatican told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He does not have pneumonia or a… -
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Polling on Israel, Hamas, Iran, and Ukraine Finds Gen Z’s Views Diverge From Other Demographics
More than seven weeks out from the Iranian-sponsored Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, new TIPP polling reveals how the American people are responding to the attacks, as well as to the ensuing war in Gaza and spreading protests here at home. While—as with most polling—gender, ethnicity, and political affiliation appear to drive some responses, perhaps… -
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‘Communism Is Not Only Here, It’s Going Mainstream,’ Survivor of Mao’s China Says
Xi Van Fleet, who lived under the bloody communist rule of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, says the goal of her new book “is to lay out the parallels of the two Cultural Revolutions that I experienced—[the one] 50 years ago and the one I experience with millions of Americans right now, the woke revolution.” “And… -
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Atlanta Rioter: ‘My Gender Is a Loaded Gun Pointed at Capitalism’s Heart’
Rioters with the "Stop Cop City" movement in Atlanta face domestic terrorism and racketeering charges for repeated attempts to stop the lawful construction of a police and firefighter training facility, including the use of Molotov cocktails to harm police officers and damage construction equipment. The newly revealed journal of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, an agitator… -
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Lack of ‘Affirmation’ Is Child Abuse: New Biden Rule Applies Transgender Standard to Foster Care
Editor’s note: This rule, finalized on April 30, 2024, will go into effect on July 1, 2024. Transgender orthodoxy may soon become a litmus test for parenthood, according to the logic of a new policy working its way through the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden. A new rule in HHS’… -
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How Bidenomics Has Given Us Most Expensive Thanksgiving Ever
Just in time for the holiday season, Bidenomics has managed to deliver the costliest Thanksgiving in American history. What is perhaps the quintessential American holiday is now another reminder that the nation is in a cost-of-living crisis where even food is taxing families’ budgets. This is the direct result of the leftist ideology that constantly pushes for… -
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Argentine President-Elect Javier Milei Ushers in New Hope for the Americas
In Argentina—a country where 1 out of every 4 people work for the state and more than half of the population receives some form of government welfare—14 million of its citizens have just voted for less government. They voted to slash the state. A true free-market reformer, Javier Milei is the first libertarian president in… -
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These 2 ‘News’ Stories Show Why History Is Too Important to Leave to Academia, Legacy Media
Elite Western institutions have not only failed to pass on our history and traditions, in many cases, they have intentionally tried to tear them down. The result is generations of Americans entirely untethered from their past. At best, they know much that isn’t so. That’s the theme of my new podcast, “History Reconsidered,” which I… -
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‘THERMONUCLEAR’: Musk Fires Back at Media Matters’ Manufactured Smear
Elon Musk is going “thermonuclear.” No, this has nothing to do with SpaceX or any of his other wild technology projects—but it’s how Musk described the lawsuit he was filing against Media Matters for America this week. The lawsuit is in response to a Media Matters report last week that X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known… -
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Why Radicals Want to Sully Thanksgiving
Nothing about America is sacred to some people anymore. Even Thanksgiving is under attack. A group called Truthsgiving recently hosted a night of “truth-telling, music, and laughter celebrating indigenous culture and history.” Not that this is new, of course—claims that Thanksgiving, “glorifies colonialism, slavery, and even epidemics” have been made before. It’s tempting to simply… -
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NO, THANKS: Bidenomics Is a Big Turkey, and Not Only at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is meant to be devoted to thankfulness for family and the many other blessings in each of our lives. But, as most American families sit down to a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, they will also be met with a specter looming over their financial life—namely, Bidenomics. Rising consumer prices, falling real incomes, a slowing… -
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Why the Media Despise Javier Milei
So, Javier Milei is extremely scary. That’s what the legacy media have decided: The newly elected libertarian conservative leader of Argentina is absolutely frightening. Axios calls him a “far-right libertarian who’s been compared to Trump.” The New York Times writes, “Argentina Braces Itself for Its New ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President,” and called the election Argentina’s “Donald Trump… -
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Be Grateful This Thanksgiving—Unlike the Woke Left
Thanksgiving is a day to be grateful for our blessings—unlike wokeness, which seeks to make people ungrateful, says Delano Squires of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Life, Religion, and Family. “What [wokeness] ultimately ends up doing is making people ungrateful for the things they have. For whatever little we think we have … someone always has less… -
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Jordan Subpoenas Delaware Prosecutor Who Allegedly Covered for Hunter Biden as Impeachment Inquiry Heats Up
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued the 60th subpoena of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, demanding that a Delaware prosecutor notorious for allegedly covering for first son Hunter Biden testify before the committee. Jordan subpoenaed Lesley Wolf, assistant U.S. attorney for Delaware, demanding that she testify on Dec. 7 at… -
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Why Supreme Court May Knock Out Ruling on Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court likely will reject an appeals court’s decision to eliminate private lawsuits intended to enforce part of the Voting Rights Act, legal experts on both sides say. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a case out of Arkansas that only the Justice Department—not individuals or private groups—may sue to… -
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Catholic All-Girls College Will Admit Men Who Identify as Trans Women
Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, will begin allowing men who identify as women to enroll at the college in the fall of 2024, an email obtained by The Daily Signal shows. President Katie Conboy told faculty in an email sent Tuesday afternoon that “Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth… -
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What to Watch From Angel Studios This Holiday Season and Beyond
No film from Angel Studios makes it to the big screen without the approval of the Angel Guild. Over 21 films a week are submitted to the Angel Guild, “and then the guild goes through those and they’re picking their favorites and they’re greenlighting them and then Angel Studios can only pick from the list… -
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Biden Sets Record on US Taxpayer Funding for an Unappreciative UN
Since the founding of the United Nations nearly eight decades ago, the United States has been the largest financier of the organization. Yet few grasp exactly how much U.S. contributions outstrip those of other nations, and fewer still seem to appreciate America’s generosity, least of all the U.N. and the other member states. Last year… -
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This Thanksgiving, Stuff Yourself With Gratitude
As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: “Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty.” The American actress and singer was right, and this week especially, each of us should take a moment to consider the unique history of this quintessential American holiday, what science says about… -
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As Inequality Grows, Men Fall Further Behind
Equality always has been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists long have objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”…