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2 Judicial Strikes Against Efforts to Keep Trump Off Ballot
Two state courts, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Claims, have thrown out the attempts by anti-democratic groups to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, at least with respect to the presidential primary election. The attempt to take away the ability of voters to make their… -
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I Watched Raw Footage From Hamas Attack on Israel. It Was the Most Graphic Thing I Have Ever Seen.
WARNING: Some of the descriptions and images below are graphic and disturbing. How quickly can I get to the bathroom if I need to throw up? I was shoulder to shoulder with men and women in suits, faith leaders who had come to the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., for a screening of a… -
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Sen. Roger Marshall Explains Why He Believes Democrats Blocked Israel Aid Package
Every Senate Democrat voted in opposition to a stand-alone Israel aid package. The package, which passed in the House on Nov. 2, would have provided Israel with $14.3 billion and was set to pull funding from President Joe Biden’s IRS budget to do so. On Tuesday, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., used a special motion to… -
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Rand Paul: Americans Fear Two-Tiered System of Justice Under Biden Administration
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul shared Wednesday that Americans across the United States fear to make political statements and decisions given President Joe Biden’s administration’s attitude toward political dissenters. Paul spoke Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. ahead of a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie, “Police State,” a film that investigates the… -
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Appeals Court Forces Biden Admin to Sell Oil Leases in Gulf of Mexico
A federal appeals court ruled Monday night that the Biden administration must hold a large sale of offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico without added ecological protections. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a subagency of the Interior Department, must—within 37 days—hold "Lease Sale… -
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The Best Way to Fight Indoctrination in Schools: School Choice
Education freedom is the “great equalizer” and has “the biggest impact” on preventing indoctrination in the schools, proclaimed Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. “You can … say ‘no’ to critical race theory, ‘no’ to indoctrination, but they [schools] can find ways around it,” Reynolds told Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts on “The Kevin Roberts Show” podcast. … -
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Wake Up, Washington: America’s Credit Outlook Now ‘Negative’
The credit rating agency Moody’s last week downgraded its assessment of the federal government’s debt outlook to “negative.” The move Friday followed the Fitch agency’s August downgrade of the overall federal credit rating. These developments shouldn’t come as a surprise to Washington. The gross national debt has climbed to $33.7 trillion, while the Social Security… -
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Threat of Terrorist Attack Against US Has Reached a ‘Whole ‘Nother Level,’ FBI Director Tells Congress
Foreign terrorists are more likely to attack the United States, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. “In a year where the terrorism threat was already elevated, the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole ‘nother level,” Wray said. “Since… -
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‘No Evidence’ of Joe Biden’s Corruption? That’s Willful Blindness
"No evidence." "No evidence." "No evidence." That's what they keep saying about corruption investigations into President Joe Biden. But we've been fed this line before. So, what evidence is there? It turns out, there's a lot. Bank records, IRS whistleblowers, text messages, emails, confidential human source reports, and more. It's a lot. So, let's focus… -
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Why Is EU Trying to Block Poland’s Move Toward Clean Nuclear Energy?
Poland lives in a rough neighborhood, sharing borders with Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine—with the historical scars to prove it. Indeed, few countries suffered more at the hands of tyrants than Poland did in the last century. That’s one reason why Poland’s economic rise since the end of the Cold War is so remarkable. By 2022,… -
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‘Most Improved’: Iowa Governor Explains How Hawkeye State Won School Choice Revolution
“I truly believe that school choice will make the most consequential change for our education system in decades,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says. The Heritage Foundation feted the state of Iowa in Des Moines on Thursday for the state’s dramatic rise on Heritage’s Education Freedom Report Card after a flurry of reforms. In January, Reynolds,… -
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Daily Signal Partners With Leading Iowa Pro-Family Group to Livestream Thanksgiving Forum With Presidential Candidates
The Daily Signal is partnering with a leading pro-family group in Iowa to livestream a Republican presidential candidate forum on Friday. "Nowhere else do you get to see the candidates gathered around a Thanksgiving table talking about their hearts, their worldviews, and the issues that go beyond the news headlines, and nowhere else will you… -
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CLEAN SWEEP: Every Leader Involved in Botched Response to Loudoun Girls’ Room Rape Is Now Gone
A reckoning has come for Virginia’s Loudoun County, where the school board had a father arrested after he demanded answers regarding the rape of his daughter in a girls’ restroom. The school board, the superintendent, and even the local prosecutor, whom the parents blamed for letting the assailant escape the sex offender list, have all… -
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Salon Columnist Blames Libs of TikTok for a Pastor’s Suicide, Without Any Evidence
Amanda Marcotte, a columnist at the left-wing outlet Salon, wrote a scathing article and social media post laying the blame of a suicide at Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik. This charge is bewildering because Raichik had never before mentioned the man who committed suicide. F.L. Copeland, a pastor and the mayor of Smiths Station,… -
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Europeans Rebel Against EU Food Nutrition Labeling
European Union institutions are known worldwide for a certain lack of accountability and inconsistent policymaking processes that are undertaken more on the sly than in a democratic matter. Alternatively, if a genuinely democratic decision has been made, it’s all too often ignored. Just as Americans often take issue with “the swamp” on Capitol Hill, so… -
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Government Deceit
“Experts” were confident that they knew what America should do about COVID-19. They were wrong about so much. Officials pushed masks, including useless cloth ones. Dr. Anthony Fauci said, “Don’t wear masks”—then, “Do wear them.” Some states closed playgrounds and banned motorboats and Jet Skis. Towns in New York banned using leaf-blowers. California pointlessly closed… -
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Supreme Court Puts Its Name on Ethics Code It’s Used All Along
Today, the Left is complaining about the very judicial independence that was among the reasons that America declared independence from England. Most Supreme Court justices today take the Constitution as it is, refusing to make one up to promote certain political interests. The Left responds by smearing those justices as “unethical” and trying to intimidate… -
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Mayorkas Set for Return to Hot Seat for Hearing on Threats at Border
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to face a barrage of questions regarding the security threats at America’s southern border at another hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Mayorkas is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland.” The homeland security chief recently testified… -
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Hundreds of Thousands Flood DC to March for Israel
WASHINGTON—Hundreds of thousands of men and women flooded the nation's capital on Tuesday for the March for Israel and demanded the return of hostages captured by Hamas. According to estimates from the rally's organizers, the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an estimated 290,000 people attended the… -
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Biden’s ‘War on Fossil Fuels’ Out of Step With Geopolitical Realities, Energy Policy Analysts Say
With the Russia-Ukraine war and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel underscoring the urgent need for renewed U.S. oil and gas development, now would be a good time for President Joe Biden to rethink his opposition to fossil fuels, an energy and environmental policy analyst says. “These events give President Biden the perfect opportunity to…