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opinion
Time for Biden and Schumer to Stop Demagoguing and Take Debt, Spending Talks Seriously
As Americans deal with an economic hangover of high inflation and rising interest rates caused in large part by Washington’s irresponsible spending spree, House Republicans have delivered a legislative package to address these problems. Troublingly, leading Democrats are making patently false claims that will make it more difficult for the two sides to find common… -
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Massive Tourism, Oil Pipeline Projects to Boost Jordanian Economy
Jordan’s tourism sector is booming. In the first quarter of 2023, tourism increased by 90.7%, surpassing tourism numbers in the first quarter of pre-COVID 2019. Petra, Wadi Rum, Karak Castle, Aqaba, and the Dead Sea are just a few of the sites that have put the Western-friendly Hashemite kingdom of Jordan on the map. Tourism,… -
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Congress Must End This Multibillion-dollar Government Slush Fund
A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a go-to funding source for billions of dollars of abusive spending in the last few administrations, Democrat and Republican alike. Currently, the Biden administration is improperly using it to help carry out its climate agenda. The 90-year-old program, called the Commodity Credit Corporation,… -
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Heritage Scholar Gives a Master Class in Responding to Sheldon Whitehouse’s Attacks
A Heritage Foundation economist called out Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., for his membership in a whites-only club in response to the senator’s attack on the conservative think tank. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center For Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, also made clear fossil fuels played a larger role in Whitehouse’s personal… -
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Dishonest New York Times Series Does Not Deserve a Pulitzer
Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the New York Board of Regents began implementing regulations targeting these Hasidic Jewish day schools. These included requiring certain classes (currently not taught at yeshivas) to be taught for a specified length, allowing… -
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Chief Diversity Officer Won’t Roll Over for the Left
Virginia state official Martin Brown is the latest reminder that DEI—“diversity, equity, and inclusion”—is a sham, a strategy to force systemic change and not to encourage equality, participation by all, or ideological diversity. “DEI is dead,” Brown said last week, and the keepers of the orthodoxy started calling for his head. Brown, chief diversity, opportunity,… -
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House Republicans ‘Did What They Had to Do’ on Debt Ceiling, CEO Says
The U.S. may “potentially” default on its debt “as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter Monday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Alfredo Ortiz, president and chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Job Creators Network, says… -
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What If 1 Day the Federal Workforce Just Disappeared? Turns Out, It Has
As of Wednesday, it’s been 1,143 days since workers across the country were sent home in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It’s been 692 days since the Biden administration issued a plan for “an effective, orderly, and safe increased return of Federal employees and contractors to the physical workplace” and… -
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Congress Failed to Hold DOJ, FBI, ATF Accountable for 1993 Waco Disaster. Something Like It Could Happen Again.
Thirty years ago last month, on April 19, 1993, a 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a conflagration that claimed the lives of 76, including 25 children. Other accounts put those numbers at 82 and 28, respectively. Three decades later, the federal agencies and officials responsible for that tragedy… -
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‘Insurrection Activities,’ ‘Racist Vitriol,’ ‘Hallucinate Misconduct’: 6 Stand-Out Moments in Senate Hearing on Supreme Court
Senate Democrats took aim at the Supreme Court broadly and Justice Clarence Thomas in particular during a hearing Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the leak of the high court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, seeking to impose new ethics rules on the Supreme Court, raised recent news reports… -
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Bracing for Post-Title 42 Surge: Biden Sends 1,500 Troops to Border, Texas Cities Issue Emergency Declarations
Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing at least: Encounters with illegal aliens at the southern border will increase when Title 42 expires on May 11. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security “expects that encounters at the southwest border will increase as smugglers spread disinformation, which will place a strain on our immigration system,… -
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1 Year Later: Dobbs Leak Led to Attacks on Justices, Pro-Lifers, Catholics
On May 2, 2022, someone leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. The Dobbs leak spurred illegal protesting intended to influence the justices, attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers, and even an assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The leaker has yet to… -
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I Talked With Tucker Carlson After His Last Show. He Was Affable and High-Spirited.
Timing is everything. On the evening of Friday, April 21, I walked into the pre-reception of The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala, hoping to see someone I knew in the sea of people arriving in black-tie attire. Within less than two minutes, I spotted a familiar face—a face I knew from watching his nightly show,… -
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Biden Shovels Millions to Nonprofits to Aid His Open-Border Schemes. Congress Must Cut Off Cash Spigot.
The Left has intentionally chosen emotional weapons to achieve its open-borders agenda—asylum, unaccompanied alien children, “humanitarian parole,” and nongovernmental organizations, particularly faith-based groups. The Left made the correct calculation that the Right would be too afraid to criticize left-wing groups’ use of such weapons, let alone shut down the Left’s abuse of them. It’s that… -
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The Death of My Dog Taught Me 2 Important Lessons About Our Secular Age
Last week, Otto, my beloved English bulldog, died. He died as he lived—peacefully. His presence in our home for 12 years was an unmitigated joy. He also, amazingly, became the best-known dog in America through sheer happenstance; he was on camera during almost all of my nearly 300 weekly “Fireside Chats” for PragerU and became… -
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Missouri County GOP Cites Bible in Resolution Endorsing Natural Marriage
Years after many declared the debate on same-sex marriage closed, a chapter of the Republican Party has passed a resolution defining marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman, based on nature and the testimony of Scripture. On April 24, the Republican Party of Jackson County, Missouri, passed the “Defense of Marriage”… -
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‘We Will Deny You Security Unless You Do What We Want’: Republicans Slam Democrat Tactics on Supreme Court Ethics
Republicans are denouncing Democratic senators’ attempt to leverage the Supreme Court budget in exchange for an enforceable ethics code. During a Senate Judiciary hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., tore into their Democratic colleagues for “threatening to cut off the funding for the security at the Supreme… -
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Everything You Need to Know About New Leaker Case
A federal magistrate judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, heard arguments last week on whether the young airman accused of leaking scores of classified documents should be freed on bond or detained pending trial. Judge David H. Hennessy, after listening to government and defense lawyers for 90 minutes, took the matter under advisement Thursday and said he… -
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Chevron Deference, Long Abused by Federal Agencies, on Supreme Court’s Chopping Block?
Who makes the law in America? If you answered “Congress,” you’d be partly right. Congress makes part of the law in America, but only a very small part. And who interprets the law in America? Again, if you answered “the courts,” you’d only be partly right. Vastly more law is made and interpreted by the… -
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‘We’re Not Doing That Here,’ Oklahoma Schools Superintendent Says of DEI Instruction
Oklahoma is taking a lead on school choice programs and resisting far-left ideology in classrooms across the state. “It is amazing how aggressive the Biden administration is with this radical agenda towards our schools,” Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, says. When he came into office, Walters says he told staffers there, “We’re…