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Keeping Neighborhoods Safe Requires Appropriate Criminal Sentences
Public safety must be a top consideration whenever someone is proposing or discussing changes to the nation’s criminal codes, whether federal, state, or local. Unfortunately, too many today have bought into the twin myths that our criminal justice system is systematically racist (it’s not) and that America has a mass incarceration problem (it doesn’t). Heritage… -
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2 New GOP State Attorneys General Stand Up to Trial Lawyers
At the end of 2021, I wrote a legal memorandum, “Using Public Nuisance Law to ‘Solve’ the Opioid Crisis Sets a Dangerous Precedent.” In it, I wrote about some flaws with, and the risks of expanding the use of, public nuisance theories of liability that were and are being pursued to attack the opioid problem. … -
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4 Takeaways as Lawmakers Probe Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Efforts
President Joe Biden has extensively promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion as the focus of government agencies, including the Defense Department and its armed services. The House Armed Services Committee held a subcommittee hearing Thursday to address whether these programs are making the military stronger or actually are wasting resources, creating more division, and contributing to… -
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House Democrats Unanimously Opposed ‘Parents Bill of Rights.’ It Passed Anyway
House Democrats unanimously opposed the Republican-led "Parents Bill of Rights," legislation that would require schools to inform parents if they encourage or promote children's transgender transition attempts. The Parents Bill of Rights Act still passed on Friday, though every Democrat and five Republicans voted against it. Those five Republicans were Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken… -
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Disruption of Judge’s Stanford Speech Looms Over Collegiate Affirmative Action Court Cases
James Piereson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, on Wednesday argued in Newsweek that the recent Stanford Law School tantrum may have “blown up” the Supreme Court cases challenging racial preferences at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The Supreme Court has permitted universities to use racial preferences in admissions on the theory… -
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70 Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Border. Real Numbers Are ‘Likely Much Higher,’ Congressman Says
The number of individuals on America’s terrorist watch list encountered on America’s borders is growing. Since the start of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol has encountered 70 illegal aliens who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, also referred to as the terrorist watchlist, between ports of entry. The majority, 69, have been encountered on… -
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Why DeSantis Is In Favor of Banning TikTok
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks the Chinese-owned app TikTok is a “security risk” and is in favor of banning it. “I would. I think so. I think it’s a security risk, they are harvesting so much data on our citizens,” DeSantis replied when asked if he would ban the app during an exclusive interview… -
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Democrats’ Boycotts of Texas, Arizona Field Hearings on Illegal Immigration Inexcusable
All 15 of the Democrats on a House committee last week boycotted a field hearing on the crisis at our southern border, aptly held in Texas for the express purpose of focusing lawmakers’—and national—attention on the out-of-control problem of illegal immigration. Worse, the March 15 hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee in Pharr,… -
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I’ll Continue to Block Biden’s Nominees Until Pentagon Stops Facilitating Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Federal law permits the U.S. military to only provide abortions in very narrow circumstances: rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother. Yet, the Biden administration has turned our Department of Defense into an abortion travel agency. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did it using a memo—without congressional approval. >>> Grassroots Army Backs Senator’s… -
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After Facing Torture From Chinese Communist Party, Uyghur Muslim Shares Her Story and Calls for Action
Sterilization, electric shock torture, and brainwashing are hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the Uyghur people, according to prison camp survivors. “Genocide is occurring. This time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said at the start of the Select Committee on the CCP hearing Thursday night. Gulbahar… -
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Raccoon Dog: More Than Just Latest Deflection From COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory?
Perfect timing. Just as most of you (and the analysts at the Department of Energy and the FBI) thought that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory, along comes a March 16 report in The Atlantic. The report says that newly discovered genetic data from caged raccoon dogs (a mammal related to the fox) is the… -
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Citizen Activists ‘Weaponized’ Transparency, US Election Commissioner Testifies
Testifying to a congressional panel, a federal election official referred Thursday to citizens who seek public records as a “weaponization” targeting election workers. The subject of the hearing by the House Administration subcommittee on elections was election observers, activists whom Democrats and the corporate media have criticized heavily in recent years as threats to democracy. … -
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1 Year Later: DC Mayor Stonewalls Probe Into Aborted Babies’ Bodies
Almost one year after photos of aborted babies’ bodies from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic shocked the nation’s capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser is stonewalling media requests for information on how, exactly, abortionist Cesare Santangelo ended those babies’ lives. The mayor’s reticence comes despite multiple requests for clarity and autopsies from Republican lawmakers concerned about whether… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Sued Over Far-Left Protesting at Supreme Court Justices’ Homes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project is suing the Justice Department for communications related to the department's failure to apply federal law against far-left protests at the Supreme Court Justices' homes. The suit follows Attorney General Merrick Garland's admission that it is a federal crime (under 18 U.S.C. § 1507) to… -
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6 Highlights of TikTok CEO’s Testimony Before House Panel
The chief executive officer of TikTok says that "ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government" even as a bipartisan group of lawmakers push to ban the popular app. TikTok faces bipartisan scrutiny at both the state and federal level. More than 30 states, led by Democratic and Republican governors alike, have taken… -
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Libs of TikTok Creator Chaya Raichik Calls for National Ban on App
“TikTok is a weapon being used to groom our kids,” says Chaya Raichik, creator of the popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok. Raichik joined lawmakers, policy experts, and parents Thursday outside the U.S. Capitol for a rally calling for Chinese-owned TikTok to be banned in America. “Every single day in America, our children are under… -
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Heritage Foundation Requests Records on How Drug User Prince Harry Acquired US Visa
A leading American think tank is trying to determine how Britain’s Prince Harry acquired a U.S. visa after revealing his affinity for drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelics. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act to find out if the Duke of Sussex admitted his once-heavy… -
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Parents’ Bill of Rights Is How Congress Can Help State School Reformers
The stunning success of conservative education reform across the country in the past few years is the result a moral fact: Parents are children’s primary educators. Until very recently, this was not disputed, let alone controversial. But lately, it has become clear that progressive elites who run teachers unions and school boards, the Democratic Party,… -
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Why Students, Alumni of King’s College Fear Closure of Christian Outpost in New York
No student, professor, or alumnus of The King’s College wants May to mark the financial ruin of the respected Christian liberal arts school in New York City. But the 85-year-old school will need a miracle to keep its doors open after several years of New York’s COVID-19 restrictions, decreased enrollment, and questionable business calls. … -
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Nagging Unanswered Questions About War in Ukraine
Ukrainians—and many Europeans and Americans—are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would that goal entail? Giving Ukraine American F-16s…