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4 Highlights From Teachers Union Head Randi Weingarten’s Testimony on School Lockdowns
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, fielded lawmakers’ questions Wednesday about her powerful union’s role in school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weingarten, who leads the nation’s second-largest teachers union, testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on why the AFT pushed school lockdowns. The New York Post reported… -
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House Passes GOP Debt Ceiling Package
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 as the debt ceiling debate continues in the nation’s capital. House speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced the legislation on April 19, which would “limit federal spending, save taxpayer dollars,” and “grow the economy.” The legislation passed 217-215. Four Republicans voted against… -
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222 Noncitizens Ousted From Voter Rolls of Arizona’s Largest County
Maricopa County, Arizona, a lightning rod during recent elections, has removed 222 foreign nationals from the voter registration rolls over the past seven years, according to a new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group. Nine of those 222 noncitizens cast 12 ballots across a total of four federal elections, the… -
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‘Distortion of Constitutional Government’: DeSantis Says Founders Would Oppose Administrative State
The “reservoir of freedom” that is the state of Florida should give Americans hope about the state of the nation, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says. “Florida really should be a source of hope for people, because as all these other problems mounted throughout our country, we were able to get the big things right,” DeSantis, a… -
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Hearing on Abortion After Dobbs Shows Democrats’ Extremism
The Supreme Court is activist, abortion is health care, pro-life laws are confusing, and abortion drugs are safe. Those were the talking points from Democratic senators and their witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held on April 26 titled “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.” Committee Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., opened by… -
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What Bud Light Scandal Could Teach Us About School Choice
One of the most effective levers of influence in a free market system is the ability for consumers to take their business elsewhere. When Gillette released a marketing campaign in 2019 designed around criticizing “toxic masculinity,” alienating millions of men around the country, consumers responded by taking their business (about $5 billion of it) elsewhere. … -
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Good Riddance to Kim Foxx, Chicago’s Soros-Backed Rogue Prosecutor
The first big city, George Soros-backed rogue prosecutor, Chicago’s Kim Foxx, announced Tuesday that she won’t seek reelection next year as the state’s attorney of Cook County, Illinois. In a defensive, rambling speech at the City Club of Chicago, the controversial Foxx, a Democrat, claimed that she never wanted to make a career out of… -
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Beijing’s Hypocrisy Hits New High With Missile Defenses
For years, China complained about the development and deployment of American missile defenses, a capability that Beijing didn’t have and claimed would undermine strategic stability and security in Asia. It’s funny how you don’t hear Beijing protesting about the development and deployment of U.S. missile defenses anymore now that China itself is developing and deploying… -
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Virginia Governor Elevates State’s Economic Partnership With Taiwan
“Together, we will continue to build a deep and lasting partnership.” That was the unmistakable, powerful message Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin conveyed Monday to President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan and the people of the Asian island nation. In his first official overseas trade mission for the commonwealth of Virginia, Youngkin made a notable visit… -
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Louisiana Bill Would Ban K-12 Classroom Discussion of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
New Louisiana legislation would ban public school teachers and personnel from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with students from kindergarten through the end of high school. That's not all. Republican Louisiana state Rep. Dodie Horton's HB 466 would also prevent teachers from discussing their own sexual orientation or gender identity with students or using… -
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Marxian Education
Some schools are ditching traditional grading. Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue. Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work. In addition, Inoue lectured a conference of rhetoric professors “stop saying that we have to teach this dominant English. … If… -
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Heritage Foundation Appeals to Force EPA Disclosures in East Palestine Train Derailment
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has appealed a court ruling siding with the Environmental Protection Agency in its refusal to disclose information about the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The Feb. 3 train derailment gained significant national media coverage for the Ohio town of 4,700, as well as a visit from former President… -
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Fox News’ Loss of Tucker Carlson Could Be Twitter’s Gain
Tucker Carlson has been trending on Twitter this week, after being let go by Fox News on Monday. If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform. Carlson averaged about 3 million… -
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Library Group Blames Book Challenges on Anti-LGBT Prejudice, Ignores Porn Charges
The American Library Association released a list Monday of the 13 most “challenged” books aimed at teens during 2022, blaming anti-LGBT prejudice for what it calls censorship even though each book contains sexually explicit content. The ALA encourages readers to “show your commitment to the freedom to read” by protecting the 13 books, all marketed to teenagers… -
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Ethnic Studies Curricula Seek to Undermine and Erase American Culture
There are doppelgangers in this world—people who look uncannily like you without being related. But aside from this exception that proves the rule, all of us are people with unique looks. Yet, thanks to the Left, the phrase “people who look like you” has now become a revolutionary tool. It is being subversively and falsely used… -
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REVOLT: 85% of Anglican Leaders Reject Head Bishop of the 3rd-Largest Christian Denomination
How should Christians respond when LGBT activists demand they compromise the truth of Scripture by endorsing same-sex marriage and transgender identity? A global gathering of Anglicans just provided an excellent example. In February, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and the “first among equals” in the global Anglican Communion,… -
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US Urged to ‘Reassert Its Role’ as Energy, Political ‘Power Broker’
Fred Zeidman, director and co-chair of Council for a Secure America, says the U.S. must “reassert its role as both an energy and a political power broker.” “It’s important for the future of mankind. We now have an ability to destroy the earth, and you have a lot of folks that don’t really care if… -
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South American Partners Turning Away From US and Toward China, Iran
Earlier this month, Beijing’s state-owned China Southern Power Grid announced the acquisition of nearly $3 billion in assets of Peru’s electric power grid, giving China control of at least 70% of Peru’s electric distribution market. The deal is remarkable, among other reasons, because it follows months of violent protests that have rocked Peru since December… -
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Researcher Ousted for ‘Dangerous’ Study Into Censorship of Feminists in Academia Who Don’t Buy Into Transgenderism
George Orwell said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” Never has this seemed more true than when observing the way a university treated a female researcher who discovered that other female academics were censored, smeared, and silenced when they questioned “gender identity theory” and… -
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Carlson’s Willingness to Question Dominant Narratives Made Him an Enemy of Powerful Establishment
“The truth is contagious,” now-former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala Friday night just outside Washington, D.C. “The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.” As you likely have heard by now, Carlson left the Fox News Channel on Monday. There is of…