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Study Debunks School Choice Critics on Tuition Increase Claims
Critics of school choice often say it leads to higher tuition at private schools, but that doesn’t actually happen, a new study has found. To the contrary, the study by The Heritage Foundation found that school choice significantly held down the cost of tuition of private elementary schools and had no impact on tuition at private high schools. (The Daily Signal is… -
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Hell Freezes Over, Pigs Fly, and Democrats Demand Closed Border
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” Who said that? Donald Trump? Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fla.? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.? Nope. These are the words of… -
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The Politically Charged Rulings of Judge Overseeing Trump Case
At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan repeatedly warned the former president’s lawyers that politics would not be tolerated in her courtroom. But even as she warns Trump about his “inflammatory” language, Chutkan has routinely… -
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Workplace Discrimination: It’s Not What You Think Anymore
The new jobs of one U.S. senator and of 302,570 ordinary Americans suggest that the quest for “diversity hires” has gone too far and may be violating the very laws meant to protect all Americans from discrimination. New Black LBGTQ California Senator Actually a Maryland Resident This week, Laphonza Butler—a black, lesbian resident of Maryland—was… -
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Rosy Jobs Numbers Show More Fracturing of Blues From Greens
Friday’s announcement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that employers created 336,000 jobs in September is seen as a sign that the economy is powering forward. In addition, job-creation numbers for the prior two months were revised upward. The New York Times called it “unexpected vigor.” President Joe Biden took credit and called it “Bidenomics.”… -
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Something’s Queer at Colonial Williamsburg
Critical race theory spread through our institutions by educating the educators. Each teacher then goes on to influence countless students. Unfortunately, certain historic sites and museums are replicating this strategy. James Madison’s home of Montpelier helped develop a divisive “anti-racist” curriculum and trained Virginia teachers to implement it. Noelle Trent from the National Civil Rights… -
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WATCH: Thousands March in Ohio Against Radical Abortion Ballot Measure
COLUMBUS—Thousands of pro-life activists marched in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, calling for protections for the unborn and urging their fellow Ohioans to vote against an upcoming pro-abortion ballot measure. Ohio Issue 1, the Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative, would ban the state from interfering with “reproductive decisions,” including abortion—effectively enshrining the… -
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US Naval Academy Is Sued Over Use of Race in Admissions
A couple of weeks ago, Students for Fair Admissions sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now, it’s suing the U.S. Naval Academy, claiming the academy’s race-based admissions practices are unconstitutional. The group was already successful in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, in which… -
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Transgender Lawyer Who Wanted to ‘Correct the Errors’ of Jack Phillips’ Thinking May Have His Own Case ‘Corrected’
The First Amendment prohibits the government from acting with hostility against sincere religious beliefs, yet Colorado twice prosecuted Christian baker Jack Phillips with such hostility. This week, Phillips got another chance to defend himself against another kind of hostility—the anger of a male lawyer named Autumn Scardina, who identifies as female and said he wanted… -
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Parents Who Object to Pornographic Material in School Libraries Aren’t ‘Book Banners’
Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers union, didn’t even wait for Banned Books Week to begin before posting on X: “Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class—THIS Speaks for itself!!!” Just the latest example of “book banning” in our schools, it seemed. But like almost every other aspect of overwrought book-banning claims,… -
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How the Left Lies to Our Faces, Seemingly Without Consequence
One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions. Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border. Apparently, the… -
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Another Concerning Revelation About the FBI
As the 2024 presidential election looms, the FBI has decided to classify supporters of former President Donald Trump as potential “domestic extremists,” a Newsweek investigation has found. Newsweek exclusively reported Wednesday that the FBI’s targeting of Trump supporters “drastically increased under President Joe Biden,” and that “nearly two-thirds of the FBI’s current investigations” target Trump… -
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The Feds and These 37 States Hit Parents With Marriage Penalties
Marriage is increasingly rare among younger American adults. Back in 1970, 83% of Americans aged 25 to 34 were married. Today, only 41% in that age range are married. And as marriage has fallen out of favor, fewer and fewer children are growing up in married, two-parent homes—and fewer babies are being born at all…. -
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When Reporters Get Cozy With Their Democratic Pals
Anyone watching the TV coverage of President Joe Biden can sense the chumminess between the president and the pro-Biden press. But you don’t always see the friendships behind the scenes. On Oct. 5, Politico’s daily Playbook newsletter touted a dinner to “celebrate White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.” In addition to a bevy of powerful… -
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Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Decision, Bans Boys From Girls’ Restrooms
A Pennsylvania school board is reversing a prior decision and choosing now to ban boys from girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, following pressure from parents and students. Last month, the Perkiomen Valley School Board in Montgomery County voted against a policy that would have required students to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. School board… -
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Two Dueling Court Rulings on Parental Notification in California. What Happens Next?
A Southern California school district requires teachers and staff to notify parents when their children say they have been bullied, are considering self-harm, or decide to publicly identify as a gender opposite their biological sex at school. But California’s Democratic attorney general, Rob Bonta, sued the district to block that policy, claiming that it violates… -
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Biden Admin Using Same Authority to Build Border Wall GOP Senator Recommended 8 Months Ago
The Biden administration is using the authority of a 1996 statute to build a section of border wall in South Texas less than a year after a Republican senator proposed a bill to resume wall construction using the same legal authority. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 gives the secretary… -
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Biden Administration Defends Building of Border Wall, Indicates It Was Forced
The Biden administration is defending its plan to construct 17 miles of border wall in South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in the U.S. Federal Register that a wall in Starr County, Texas, will be constructed to “deter illegal crossings in areas of ‘high illegal entry’ into the United States.” President Joe… -
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Critics Assail Biden’s ‘War on American Energy’ on National Energy Appreciation Day
Sen. Cynthia Lummis sponsored a resolution establishing the first-ever National Energy Appreciation Day, and the Wyoming Republican had much to say about American energy at a panel discussion marking the occasion Wednesday. “As [the Biden] administration continues to put our domestic energy producers on the back burner with its war on American energy, it is… -
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Justice Thomas and the Uneven Scales of Scrutiny
There is no worse example of a biased, tendentious mainstream media with ulterior motives than the castigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the past half year. The latest example stems from flyspecking Thomas’ amended financial disclosure reports, repeating what has never been disputed and attempting to cast a dark shadow on otherwise innocent,…